Best 301 quotes in «miserable quotes» category

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty...all of it. I would feel everything. It would all be mine.

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

Have you ever noticed how when you're happy, time seems to pass by fast, while when you're miserable it goes real slow? Life would have been a blink with you whether it lasted a millennium or a month.

Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?

How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?

I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous, and good.

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

I'd swap everything I've done in my miserable little life to bat like Virender Sehwag

I couldn't just get up every day and be miserable and complain.

I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary.

I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.

If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.

If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.

If you are happy, you are happy; nobody asks you why you are happy. Yes, if you are miserable, a question is relevant. If you are miserable, somebody can ask why you are miserable, and the question is relevant - because misery is against nature, something wrong is happening. When you are happy, nobody asks you why you are happy, except for a few neurotics. There are such people; I cannot deny the possibility.

If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement.

If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better in the morning. This, of course, is utter nonsense, because a miserable experience remains a miserable experience even on the loveliest of morning.

I had an iPhone and a Droid and both of them were miserable pieces of equipment.

If you must leave your job after three months - and I recommend staying a year unless you're totally miserable - then downplay the short tenure both in your resume and in interviews.

If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

If you know Christ and him crucified, you know enough to make you happy, supposing you know nothing else. And without this, all your other knowledge cannot keep you from being everlastingly miserable.

If you want to be miserable, think of yourself.  If you want to be happy, think of others.

I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.

I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.

I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

I just think Radiohead are f-in' miserable bastards.

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

I'm so miserable without you, it's almost as if you're here!

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all of them.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.