The high point was that the people are really nice – despite the crazy politics – and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.

I care about the match. I don’t care about, you know, other things. It’s like if I’m not happy, it’s okay. I want just to be happy, you know. If I’m not happy, fine. Have it, you know.

It’s not a mid-life crisis. It’s a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go “I have everything but I’m still unhappy.

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

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

We now prefer the fantasy…We find comfort in the lies. I was the victim of that for so long. I imbibed everything. It led to a place where I became extremely unhappy. And now I question everything. I believe it’s a responsibility to do it.

A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, ‘I’ve got what I want. What are you going to do about it?’ How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don’t think you’d be very happy.

Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you’re happy, don’t. Why spoil it? You’re probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you’d just spoil it to know it.

As soon as something stops being fun, I think it’s time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.

Everyday God gives us the sun, and also the moment in wich have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Our magic moment helps us to change and send us off in search of our dreams.

Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access.

What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.

Yet little Tom was not unhappy. He had a hard time of it but did not know it. It was the sort of time that all the Offal Court boys had, therefore he supposed it was the correct and comfortable thing.

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.

Whatever one may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is the moment… falling asleep, and the unhappiest moment of the unhappy that of his awaking

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

Man is unhappy because he doesn’t know he’s happy.

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

We were caught in a vicious circle of unpleasantness and sorrow. Not a very happy period for either us, but at least it’s coming to an end.

The unhappy man who has been treated as a brute animal too frequently sinks beneath the common standard of the human species

The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don’t think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

I get unhappy doing things that I’m not passionate about. Because I feel like I’m squandering this incredible gift I’ve been given to finance films. As soon as my name alone was enough to make this happen, I vowed to myself that I was going to work with directors who were changing cinema, doing something important, you know?

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude or change your job.

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.