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.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add 'Let no one till his death be called unhappy.'

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship you are very much in love with someone but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

If you're unhappy you should change what you're doing.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

On one level nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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

Unhappy let alone angry religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

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.

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.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.