#unhappy

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#cannot #forgive #himself #how #unhappy

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. ↗

— George Orwell

#back #his #look #say #truth

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#am #being #being alone #books #changed

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#because #confusion #contrary #earlier #enjoys

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ↗

— Bill Gates

#greatest #learning #most #source #unhappy

Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#down #feeling #general #get #how

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about. ↗

— Jung Chang

#accept #because #century #chinese #come

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy. ↗

— Giovanni Boccaccio

#human #unhappy

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

#audience #back #buy #dialogue #halts

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#avoid #being #close #count #nothing