#unhappy

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

— Fannie Hurst

#i #more #unhappy #writing

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#always #certain #happy #life #making

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#be happy #better #case #general #happy

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults. ↗

— William Joyce

#encouraged #enjoyed #enthusiasms #go #i

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#forced #get #into #man #out

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#feeling #i #i am #myself #only

All things do help the unhappy man to fall. ↗

— John Webster

#fall #happy man #help #man #things

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#another #cases #childhood #convinced #essential

I'm not going to live my life unhappy and why should he and we talk about it and I think what's great about the film is that it shows is the meaning of family doesn't have to be as traditional as it once was, like you can make a family. ↗

— Nia Long

#family #film #going #great #i

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#desire #entertainment #everything #food #health