A strong nor'wester's blowing. Bill!
Hark! don't yet hear it roar now?
Lord help 'em, how I pities them
Unhappy folks on shore now! [ William Pitt ]
There are enough unhappy on this earth. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy. [ Saurin ]
None think the great unhappy but the great. [ Young ]
God has commanded time to console the unhappy. [ Joubert ]
Oh! thou gentle scene
Of Sweet repose; where by the oblivious draught
Of each sad toilsome day to peace restor'd.
Unhappy mortals lose their woes awhile. [ Thomson ]
Unhappy he! who from the first of joys.
Society, cut off, is left alone
Amid this world of death. Day after day.
Sad on the jutting eminence he sits,
And views the main that ever toils below;
Still fondly forming in the farthest verge,
Where the round ether mixes with the wave.
Ships, dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds;
At evening, to the setting sun he turns
A mournful eye, and down his dying heart
Sinks helpless. [ Thomson ]
Unhappy is the man who is in advance of his time. [ French Proverb ]
We are never as happy, nor as unhappy, as we fancy. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Men are so unjust that to be unhappy is to be wrong. [ Mme. du Puisieux ]
No person is either so happy or so unhappy as he imagines. [ La Roche ]
It is an unhappy wit that stirs up enemies against itself. [ Proverb ]
Rashness is the fruitful but unhappy parent of misfortune. [ Thomas Fuller ]
Hence the unhappy news is spread abroad through the whole city. [ Virgil ]
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
God gives whole days to the fortunate, and but some hours to the unhappy. [ Proverb ]
A man who is pleased with no one is more unhappy than he who pleases no one. [ De Saint-Real ]
Unhappy scenes which I myself witnessed, and in which I acted a principal part. [ Virgil ]
If a man is unhappy, this must be his own fault; for God made all men to be happy. [ Epictetus ]
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. [ Proverb ]
Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable. [ Agnesi ]
One can always recognize women who trust their husbands, they look so thoroughly unhappy. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
We often console ourselves for being unhappy by a certain pleasure that we find in appearing so. [ De Barthelemy ]
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Truly unhappy is the man who leaves undone what he can do, and undertakes what he does not understand; no wonder he comes to grief. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It is hard to say which of the two we ought most to lament, - the unhappy man who sinks under the sense of his dishonor, or him who survives it. [ Junius ]
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of doing them to others. [ Sir W. Temple ]
We may deserve grief; but why should women be unhappy? - except that we know heaven chastens those whom it loves best, being pleased by repeated trials to make these pure spirits more pure. [ Thackeray ]
He hazards much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. [ Roger Ascham ]
Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire. Lysander knew this was in part true, and refused the rich garments that the tyrant Dionysius proffered to his daughters, saying that they were fit only to make unhappy faces more remarkable.
[ Zimmermann ]
The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health. [ Beecher ]
I was walking in the street, a beggar stopped me, — a frail old man. His inflamed, tearful eyes, blue lips, rough rags, disgusting sores . . . oh, how horribly poverty had disfigured the unhappy creature! He stretched out to me his red, swollen, filthy hand. He groaned and whimpered for alms. I felt in all my pockets. No purse, watch, or handkerchief did I find. I had left them all at home. The beggar waited and his out-stretched hand twitched and trembled slightly. Embarrassed and confused, I seized his dirty hand and pressed it. Don't be vexed with me, brother; I have nothing with me, brother.
The beggar raised his bloodshot eyes to mine; his blue lips smiled, and he returned the pressure of my chilled fingers. Never mind, brother,
stammered he; thank you for this — this, too, was a gift, brother.
I felt that I, too, had received a gift from my brother. [ Ivan Tourgueneff ]