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I'm going to die unhappy. That's how artists roll!

Quotes by Iliza Shlesinger

Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

Quotes by Ian Hart

Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.

Quotes by Ian MacKaye

As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

Quotes by Ian Fleming

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Quotes by Herodotus

I think that there must be a point of self-immersion in a story that is a point of no return. You get far enough in that the story has really touched you to the core and deeply troubled you and made you unhappy and fearful, and then how do you get out of that? I'm a writer, so my way of getting out of that is to write.

Quotes by Helen Garner

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

Quotes by Helen McCrory

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro

Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.

Quotes by Gwen Ifill

I've never disguised the fact that I wasn't happy in teaching. But the reason was that I wanted to do comedy. I would have been a very unhappy security guard or a very unhappy greengrocer.

Quotes by Greg Davies

I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

Quotes by Graham Norton

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

Quotes by Graham Norton

Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.

Quotes by Gordon W. Allport

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

Quotes by Giovanni Boccaccio

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Quotes by Gertrude Stein

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

Quotes by Giacomo Casanova

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

George Orwell

During the first couple of years at school... I used to take my lunch and go down by the old fair grounds & sit alone by the side of the road & eat it... Those lovely, lonely lunches stick deep in my memory as unhappy times.

Quotes by Frederick Banting

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

Quotes by Fannie Hurst

My parents have always said, 'You'll be so unhappy if you're no more than your career, that it's important to get out there and do things other than just your career.'

Quotes by Eva Amurri

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Quotes by Epictetus

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.

Quotes by Emma Donoghue

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.

Quotes by Ellen Swallow Richards

In general, I think people are worried about saying the wrong thing to any grieving person. On a very basic level, I think they're frightened of touching off tears or sorrow, as though someone tearing up at the mention of unhappy news would be the mentioner's fault.

Quotes by Elizabeth McCracken

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

Quotes by Eliza Haywood

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

Quotes by Edward Young

Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and perils inexpressible and consequences untold are their unhappy heritage.

Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Quotes by Edith Sitwell

People from my father's generation didn't have the luxury to be unhappy in their job.

Quotes by Dulquer Salmaan

You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

Quotes by Dorothy Dix

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.

Quotes by Dorothy Fields

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

Quotes by Doris Lessing

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Quotes by Donald Knuth

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

Quotes by Don Knotts

Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.

Quotes by Dimebag Darrell

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

Quotes by Dennis Prager

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

Quotes by Demi Lovato

That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.

Quotes by Debbie Harry

Drama's unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy.

Quotes by Debbie Reynolds

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it.

Quotes by David Cassidy

I heard Springsteen was an unhappy person. I don't know, I haven't read his biography. But a lot of people in my field should be a lot more unhappy than they are.

Quotes by David Berman

We strive for a culture of constant communication. Team members know in real time if there are performance issues. Team leaders know in real time if a team member is unhappy.

Quotes by Daniel Lubetzky

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Quotes by Dale Carnegie

In 1973, I was offered a professorship at the University of California, San Diego. Although I was certainly not unhappy at Nottingham, I had been there over twenty years from starting undergraduate studies to Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics, and I thought that a change of scene was worth considering.

Quotes by Clive Granger

To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.

Quotes by Claude Vorilhon

People used to ask me how I got my jollies, and I guess I'm happy when what I'm doing is helping people and unhappy when what I'm doing isn't helping people.

Quotes by Chuck Feeney

I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.

Quotes by Christina Hendricks

I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.

Quotes by Christina Ricci

People who write happy songs are often unhappy.

Quotes by Chris Martin

It's no secret that many tales of tween stardom have had unhappy endings.

Quotes by Chris Connelly

Kids are the most conventional people in the world. It is more important than anything else for them to conform, and I was a kind of oddball. I was driven into being independent. I was very, very unhappy.

Quotes by Charlton Heston

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

Quotes by Charlize Theron

If you're unhappy with what you've had over the last 50 years, you have an unfortunate misappraisal of life. It's as good as it gets, and it's very likely to get worse.

Quotes by Charlie Munger

I never ran away, but I was very unhappy as a teenager. I felt like a complete nonentity, and I very tangibly have memories of not wanting to be here - in my body.

Quotes by Charles Bock

I was an unhappy teenager, and there's just no way around it.

Quotes by Charles Bock

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

Quotes by Chaka Khan

The first record I made, when I listen to it, I understand. I understand perfectly well why certain musicians were unhappy with me. I had to decide: was I unhappy with me? I liked it. If they didn't like it, it was on them.

Quotes by Cecil Taylor

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Quotes by Catherine Drinker Bowen

You don't feel bad when you're dancing. You can't feel unhappy; it's impossible. It's such a natural way to release endorphins.

Quotes by Caroline Flack

I know during my transition it was difficult for me to stop believing I would be stuck unhappy forever, but that's not true. Physical changes take a while but internal feelings of changing and finding your peace can take way longer.

Quotes by Carmen Carrera

I was very unhappy when I used to record and things wouldn't turn out the way I would want to, because I was being such a nice girl. I wouldn't complain when things were going wrong.

Quotes by Buffy Sainte-Marie

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Quotes by Brigitte Bardot

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

Quotes by Brigitte Bardot

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

Quotes by Bram Stoker

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

Quotes by Bob Dylan

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

Quotes by Blake Edwards

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Quotes by Bill Gates

I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working.

Quotes by Betty Field

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Quotes by Bertolt Brecht

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Quotes by Bertrand Russell

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

Quotes by Bernadine Dohrn

Are we all unhappy with our true selves, and likes and follows are what give us value?

Quotes by Benny Cassette

It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

Quotes by Ben Elliot

I left acting in the summer of 1988 because I was unhappy with a lot of the irresponsibility that was going on in the entertainment industry.

Quotes by Ben Harney

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

Quotes by Beatrice Wood

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

Quotes by Audrey Tautou

I made some flippant remark about not wanting my son to grow up with an American accent, and the next thing I knew, there were people in America suggesting I head back to Britain if I was unhappy at such a prospect.

Quotes by Ashley Jensen

I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Quotes by Ariana Grande

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

Quotes by Antonin Artaud

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

Quotes by Antoine Rivarol

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

Anton Chekhov

What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.

Quotes by Anthony Holden

If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.

Quotes by Anthony Horowitz

Geniuses sometimes end up very unhappy, without a penny.

Quotes by Anthony Mann

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.

Quotes by Anne Stevenson

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

Quotes by Anne Tyler

I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.

Quotes by Anjelica Huston

Even people who aren't pleasant to deal with - it's often because they're unhappy, and something's still not resolved for them.

Quotes by Anita Dobson

Striving is exhausting. Sometimes I do say things like, 'I wish I were not quite this driven to be excellent.' It's not a comfortable life. It's not relaxed. I'm not relaxed as a person. I mean, I'm not unhappy. But... it's the opposite of being comfortable.

Quotes by Angela Duckworth

After getting a law degree, I spent five unhappy months as a corporate attorney.

Quotes by Andrew Yang

Oh yes, I certainly have low days. I feel that in treating the depression, it's not so much that I've become happier as it is that I can be unhappy in better ways.

Quotes by Andrew Solomon

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.

Quotes by Anders Fogh Rasmussen

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

Quotes by Amos Oz

Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process that would end up in an - unhappy - Israeli-Egyptian peace. We have seen peace with Egypt. We have seen peace with Jordan. We have seen the handshake between Rabin and Arafat - things are possible.

Quotes by Amos Oz

As her life became more unhappy, acting attracted Marie-Antoinette because it fulfilled unmet emotional needs. By all accounts, she was quite good in her little private theatricals. But her desire to be a heroine, both literally and figuratively, was shocking to the French.

Quotes by Amanda Foreman

In those early days, the important thing was the happy ending. I did not tolerate unhappy endings - for my heroines, anyway. And later on, I began to read things like 'Wuthering Heights,' and very, very unhappy endings would take place, so I changed my ideas completely and went in for the tragic, which I enjoyed.

Quotes by Alice Munro

Unhappy people make me feel like I've done something wrong.

Quotes by Alexandra Stoddard

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Quotes by Alexander Pope

I can't imagine a world where I wouldn't have the means of expression. When I talk to people who don't, it seems like they're really unhappy.

Quotes by Alex Wolff

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