We’ve all heard the saying “money can’t buy happiness.” But what about when you’re on your death bed and you regret not spending more time with your family or doing the things you love? Surely, then, money would bring some level of happiness. right? In this blog post, we’ll take a look at some famous entrepreneurs who have spoken out about money and happiness. We’ll see what they had to say and explore whether or not money really can buy happiness.

The best unhappy quotes

1. The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again. — Rabindranath Tagore

2. It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy. — Virginia Woolf

3. 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. — Sinclair Lewis

4. A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person. — Milan Kundera

5. The books. Are unhappy. — Will Bly, Creatures: A Collection of Short Stories

6. You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl’s better off dead — Ray Bradbury

7. Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday–schools, and churches, and pauper–societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I’m old, doesn’t mean that I am. I’m pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy. — Sylvester Stallone

9. The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future. — Soren Kierkegaard

10. 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

11. London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy. — Oscar Wilde

12. No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted. — Victor Hugo

13. You live longer once you realise that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. — Ruth E. Renki

14. All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you’re unhappy where you are, MOVE. — Timothy Leary

15. I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls. — Virginia Woolf

16. Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access. — Otto Von Bismarck

17. :…for animals and birds are like people, too, though they do not talk the same or do the same things. Without them the earth would be an unhappy place. — Scott O’Dell

18. To Move from Woe to Wow with an Unhappy Customer. . . Solve the Problem!• — Take action quickly and effectively.•

19. You may not be happy with your life. All you have to do is to refuse to be unhappy! Because the worst thing is to get used to be unhappy! — Mehmet Murat ildan

20. As soon as something stops being fun, I think it’s time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live. — Richard Branson

21. After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things. — Sharon Stone

22. 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

23. Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn’t consider himself supremely blessed. — Seneca The Elder

24. Unhappy, but not unhappy enough. — Samuel Beckett

25. Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy. — Robert Louis Stevenson

26. No good can come from beating ourselves up for falling down–for feeling unhappy when we want to feel just the opposite. — Toni Sorenson

27. We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love. — Sigmund Freud

28. Unhappiest is the person who feels happy when seeing an unhappy person! — Mehmet Murat ildan

29. My therapist told me that I over–analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother. — Michelle Templet

30. Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people. — Russell Simmons

31. Always BE HAPPY IS NOT IMPORTANT , WHAT IMPORTANT IS TO FIGHT THE STATE OF MIND WHICH MAKES US HAPPY OR UNHAPPY !! — Tushar Upreti

32. And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate… — Washington Irving

33. Dost thou understand? I love thee!’ he cried again. ‘What love!’ said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed, ––’The love of a damned soul. — Victor Hugo

34. An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

35. Stop thinking. I’ve stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won’t want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy. — Sergei Dovlatov

36. Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn’t have to be dripping in deep significance. — Roger Ebert

37. There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent! — Rossana Condoleo, Happy Divorce: How to turn your divorce into the most brilliant and rewarding opportunity of your life!

38. Unhappiest is the person who feels happy when seeing an unhappy person! — Mehmet Murat ildan

39. Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time. — Umberto Eco

40. Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy? You do! — Norman Vincent Peale

41. To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy. — Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy

42. Stop thinking. I’ve stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won’t want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy. — Sergei Dovlatov

43. Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. — Red Skelton

44. Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. — Wayne Dyer

45. Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow. — Thomas Campion

46. Always BE HAPPY IS NOT IMPORTANT , WHAT IMPORTANT IS TO FIGHT THE STATE OF MIND WHICH MAKES US HAPPY OR UNHAPPY !! — Tushar Upreti

47. London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy. — Oscar Wilde

48. To Move from Woe to Wow with an Unhappy Customer. . . Thank the Customer!• — Thank them for bringing his or her concerns to your attention. •

49. 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. — Sinclair Lewis

50. People say there are thousands of options we have in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy. — Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

Conclusion

If you are feeling unhappy, remember that it is only temporary. Happiness is something that comes and goes, but it is always within reach. Take the time to enjoy the small moments of joy, and know that brighter days are ahead.