Best 301 quotes in «miserable quotes» category

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

In giving respect we can be very happy, because we can do it in all situations. When we expect respect we are miserable, because it is not that everyone in every situation will respect us.

In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are delivered from the miserable pressure of the will. We celebrate the Sabbath from the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still.

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

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 only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

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 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.

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 think we could get people to both be more productive and happier. We're less productive as individuals. We're less productive as companies, and we're more miserable.

I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

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.

I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

It's about showing up. And sometimes I don't do it. I almost always regret it, but sometimes I don't do it. Sometimes I walk into a situation where I'm intimidated and I want to be liked and I want to fit in, and I don't choose authenticity. And it's always pretty miserable.

It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.

I try to paint from life, but I had such a miserable experience with Bonaparte, who wouldn't sit still and kept mumbling about catching a cold and something incoherent about Wellington , so I finally decided to work from photos.

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable.

It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.

I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity.

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched, miserable and sinful they are.

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

I've been poor and neglected, in the middle and cherished, then rich and miserable and back to the middle and now happy. I've lived it all.