Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending. - Lemony Snicket 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. - Douglas Coupland 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 And Father said, "There are no happy endings." "Right!" cried Iowa Bob an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. "Death is horrible, final, and frequently premature," Coach Bob declared. "So what?" my father said. "Right!" cried Iowa Bob. "That's the point: So what?" Thus the family m...

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. - James Joyce I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside. - Ingrid Bergman Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy. - Haruki Murakami George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again. - Francis Ford Coppola Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are? - Joan Crawford I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian] - Kurt Vonnegut Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning. - Charles Dickens I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio. - Bernadine Dohrn...

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all. -Cassandra - Aeschylus I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life. - Haruki Murakami Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. - Alain De Botton Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory. - Gilbert K Chesterton Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears. - Frederick Douglass I am the most unhappy so...

MEDVIEDENKO Why do you always wear mourning? MASHA I dress in black to match my life. I am unhappy. - Anton Chekhov I have been very happyvery fortunatevery proud,' she went on. 'Too fortunate. Too happy for a little while. And now I am unhappy forfor life. - Joseph Conrad