I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
Drama's unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy.
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.
All my indispositions have their source in my mind. It is when I am restless and unhappy that I become susceptible of cold, damp, heats, and such nonsense.
I think it's too easy to recount your unhappy memories when you write about yourself. You bask in your own innocence. You revere your grief. You arrange your angers at their most becoming angles.
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
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.
I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.
I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.
We become moral when we are unhappy.
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
I'm not unhappy with the idea of appealing to people's self-interest if that's what makes them understand something about the non-human world.
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.
I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.
Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.
Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.
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.
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.
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.
I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
