A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.
Robert Sheckley

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

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

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.
Dorothy Fields

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
Paul Dudley White

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
John Webster

And when Elvis was unhappy, believe me, everyone was unhappy.
Priscilla Presley

At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.
Keith Emerson

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

But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them.
William Odom

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

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
Joseph Butler

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
Louis XIV

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.
Gwen Ifill

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.
Thomas Campion

George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.
Francis Ford Coppola

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
Gloria Steinem