Best 301 quotes in «miserable quotes» category

I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.

Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

Larry David called me and said, "You can never watch The West Wing again. Either the show is going to be great without you and you're going to be miserable, or the show is going to be less than great without you and you're going to be miserable." So I had them send a tape of the first episode that I didn't do. I put it in the VCR and I don't think I got 15 seconds in before I leapt up and slammed it off! It felt like I was watching somebody make out with my girlfriend. I've never seen a West Wing episode in seasons five, six or seven.

Let the artist have just enough to eat, and the tools of this trade: ask nothing of him. Materially make the life of the artist sufficiently miserable to be unattractive, and no-one will take to art save those in whom the divine daemon is absolute.

Life is too short to be miserable.

Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short.

Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.

Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.

Miserable people love to make other people miserable. I don't hate them, I just feel sorry for them.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

My adolescence was quite miserable, when I look back on it, at least my early part of my adolescence. Because there was anti-Semitism in Peoria, and I didn't feel that when I was in elementary school.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.

No one can ruin shows, but Internet trolls sure can make things miserable.

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

Now he's miserable and depressed.

On a practical level, I'm uncomfortable at comedy clubs because there are so many shitty dude comics who have made my life miserable. If I go to a comedy club and I look around, I don't know which of the dudes lining the wall told me that I was too fat to get raped. It makes me nauseous. But that was a couple years ago, and meanwhile, comedy has changed a lot.

Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going to be a drunk and I'm never going to do anything. I don't drink. I've never been drunk in my life. And they talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great.

One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church.

One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.