Best 301 quotes in «miserable quotes» category

People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.

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

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

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.

salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

Self Pity is the most miserable party to go to, because, in case you haven't noticed, you're the only one who is there.

She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part of his readers, but must be a very ill man if he could please himself.

Shortly after Eva's [Braun] second attempt at suicide, [Adolf] Hitler moved quickly, as we discussed already. I can't tell you how difficult it was for her living at the apartment of our parents. I wasn't happy there, but Eva was miserable, I can tell you that.

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.

Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I didn't quite build St Paul's, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.

That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures.

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209)……The more I loved her the more I hated her. And the more she loved me, the more I harmed myself (page 269).

The miserable are sacred.

The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.

The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.

The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

The vexing thing about human behavior is that when we say we know we should do something, we really and truly do know it. It's hard to be 50 lbs. overweight or smoke a pack a day or feel miserable every moment you spend at work and not understand in a deep and primal way that change is in order - and that in some cases it could even save your life.

The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.