Unhappy Life Quotes:

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

- Juvenal

topic: Girl, Gay, Happy Life, Wreaths, Unhappy Life

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: Life, Good Morning, Happy, Laughs And Smiles, Make Others Happy

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.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Life, Motivational, Positive, Always Happy, Influencing People

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Love, Being Alone, Unhappy, Always Alone, Lonely And Alone

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

- Groucho Marx

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy, Always Happy, Joy Happiness

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

- Lauren Oliver

source: Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, Lauren Conrad, Sara Shepard, Kiera Cass (2012). “Must-Read Teen Novel Sampler: For the Teen in All of Us: A Collection of Fabulous Reads”, p.24, Harper Collins

topic: Happiness, Bad Day, Unhappy, Happy Times, Being Unhappy

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.

- Christopher McCandless

topic: Reality, Men, People, Inspirational Adventure Time, Spirit Of Adventure

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

- Christopher McCandless

topic: Life, Motivational, Travel, Joy Of Living, Inspirational Adventure Time

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon,for each day to have a new and different sun.

- Aron Ralston

topic: Adventure, Passion, Reality, Spirit Of Adventure, Monotonous Life

...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

- Christopher McCandless

topic: Joy, Sun, Different, Monotonous Life, Joy Of Life

If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)

- Swami Satchidananda

source: Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

topic: Worst Enemy, Suffering, Unhappy, Pleasure And Happiness, Unhappy Life

There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

- Byron Katie

topic: Happy Life, Mind, Unhappy, Clear Minds, Unhappy Life

Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.

- Stephen R. Lawhead

topic: Happy Life, Thinking, Unhappy, Unhappy Life

An unhappy life is a life not lived.

- Dennis Prager

topic: Happy Life, Unhappy, Life Is, Unhappy Life

The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.

- Nick Hornby

topic: Song, People, Listening, Sad Song, Unhappy Life

I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought I would sleep no more that night but eventually I did. In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wire man says.

- Stephen King

topic: Sleep, Happy Life, Night, Unhappy Life

A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve.

- Michael Josephson

topic: Happy Life, Goal, Unhappy, Unhappy Life

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

- Michael Pollan

source: Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.39, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Happy Life, Thinking, Unhappy, Unhappy Life

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

- Fulton J. Sheen

topic: Unhappy, Trying, Depth, Undisciplined, Contemptuous

We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.

- Richard Rohr

topic: Happy Life, Imperfect Things, Unhappy, Unhappy Life

If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk, because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products.

- Cesar Chavez

source: "The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals". Book by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, October 31, 2003.

topic: Giving Up, Happy Life, Animal, Dairy, Dairy Products

There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon.

- Solomon Northup

source: Solomon Northup (2016). “Twelve Years a Slave”, p.76, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Tired, Happy Life, Sorrow, Unhappy Life

I've had an unhappy life, thank God.

- Russell Baker

topic: Adversity, Happy Life, Thank God, Unhappy Life