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   All happy families resemble each other; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

—Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich

Just don't get too complicated Eddie.When a guy gets too complicated he's unhappy. And when he's unhappyöhis luck runs out.

—Chandler, Raymond

'You shouldn't make jokes,'Alice said,'if it makes you so unhappy.'

—Dodgson

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

—Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro

Then trust me, there's nothing like drinking So pleasant this side of the grave; It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave.

—Diaz, Porfirio

Men are the only animals who devote themselves assiduously to making one another unhappy. It is, I suppose, one of their godlike qualities.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

On n'est jamais si malheureux qu'on croit, ni si heureux qu'on espe'  re. One is never as unhappyas one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.

—La Rochefoucauld, Fran c° ois, 6th Duc de

It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

   Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy When I am happy I live and despise writing For my Muse this cannot but be dispiriting.

—Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret)

These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favourites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities and eminent services; of instructing princes to know their true interest by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people: of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive, and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.

—Swift,Jonathan

Was man auch sagen mag, der glu«  cklichsteAugenblick des Glu« c klichen ist doch der seines Einschlafens wie der unglu«  cklichste des Unglu«  cklichen der seines Erwachens. Whatever we may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is that of his falling asleep, just as the unhappiest moment of the unhappy man is that of his awakening.

—Schopenhauer, Arthur