U Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with U. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.”
Source: When God Whispers Your Name
“Unhappiness plus shame is unbearable. Unhappiness plus blame is galvanizing”
Source: Kill Show
“Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money.”
Source: High Fidelity
“Unhappiness was my god.”
Source: A Season in Hell and Other Works
“Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have the miserable conviction the we alone suffer to the point of unbearable intensity. Unhappiness is always to feel oneself imprisoned in one's own skin, in one's own brain.”
Source: Against the Pollution of the I: On the Gifts of Blindness, the Power of Poetry, and the Urgency of Awareness
“Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.”
Source: No Longer Human
“Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.”
“Unhappy employees are unproductive employees.”
Source: On Fire at Work: How Great Companies Ignite Passion in Their People Without Burning Them Out
“Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps of the world, maps that let you know what sorts of people and situations to avoid.”
Source: Generation A: A Novel
“Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.”
“Unhappy failures need not apply.”
Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!
“unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.”
“Unhappy is a nice word.”
“Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on.”
“Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.”
Source: The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key
“Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.”
Source: Astell: Political Writings
“Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.”
Source: Strategy Six Pack
“Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero!
No, Andrea....unhappy is the land that needs a hero.”
“Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.”
“Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. In order to consider himself supremely blessed he must deeply understand that things could be much worse but aren't! To not do that is to always be less happy than he could be.”
“Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.”
“Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.”
“Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!”
Source: Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“Unhappy memories are persistent. They're specific, and it's the details that refuse to leave us alone. Though a happy memory may stay with you just as long as one that makes you miserable, what you remember softens over time. What you recall is simply that you were happy, not necessarily the individual moments that brought about your joy.
But the memory of something painful does just the opposite. It retains its original shape, all bony fingers and pointy elbows. Every time it returns, you get a quick poke in the eye or jab in the stomach. The memory of being unhappy has the power to hurt us long after the fact. We feel the injury anew each and every time we think of it.”
Source: Belle
“Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.”
“Unhappy people are dangerous.”
Source: The Judge
“Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.”
“Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own.”
Source: To Begin at the Beginning (Volume 28)
“Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.”
“Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth.”
Source: Plays of William Shakespeare
“Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.”
Source: Life Of Galileo
“Unhappy they who weary themselves, as the world generally does, in wandering through many winding paths, neglecting the gospel, and pleasing themselves with wild romances, —“ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth,” or to find life! But happy they who have embraced the gospel, and whose attachment to it is steadfast; for this, beyond all doubt, is truth and life.”
Source: Commentaries on Ephesians
“Unhappy voters thought the anemic economy, Obamacare, the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the scandals in government, and the incompetent handling of everything from the Islamic State to Ebola were the only real issues. Democrats' refusal to acknowledge them did not make these failures go away.”
“Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.”
Source: Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott
“Unhappy wretch... shall my ill-got Wealth, the Product of prosperous Lust, and of a vile and vicious Life of Whoredom and Adultery, be intermingled with the honest well-gotten Estate of this innocent gentleman, to be a Moth and a Caterpiller among it, and bring the Judgments of Heaven upon him, and upon what he has, for my sake!”
Source: Roxana
“Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.”
Source: Ends and Odds
“Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.”
“Unhappy? I was lucky. So, so lucky. And I couldn’t see it.” His eyes met hers. “I love you,” he said. “And you make me happier than I ever thought I could be. And now that I know what it’s like to be someone else—to lose myself—I want my life back. My family. You. All of it.” His eyes darkened. “I want it back.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“UNHCR staff numbers grew from 500 to over 9,000 between 1950 and 2016. Camps provided jobs: just not for refugees.”
Source: Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
“unhealed trauma will make you think every lover you meet is up to something”
Source: Dining with the Enemy
“Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.”
Source: Snooze: A Story of Awakening
“Unhealthy competition makes people who should work together, conspire against one another.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.”
“Unhealthy diets and junk foods accumulate and eventually you'll die.”
“Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level, it is hard for family members to know where one ends and another begins. In their efforts to be close, they often suffocate one another's individuality.”
“Unhealthy gossiping is one way that divides heaven and hell.”
“Unhealthy habits and lifestyles reduce your productivity, cost your business (which, if you’re self-employed, is costing you), and create cyclical patterns of dysfunction and general dissatisfaction.”
Source: Self Care at Work: How to Reduce Stress, Boost Productivity, and Do More of What Matters
“Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire.”
Source: Notes of a Crocodile