Best 301 quotes in «miserable quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?

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

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

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable.

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

We have way too many lawyers, the price for them has plummeted and you will have a miserable and unsatisfying life. Unless you get into Harvard Law. You could be in a yurt on the Mongolian Plateau and they'll say, "Oh you must be smart. You went to Harvard Law.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.

When the Spirit of God moves within us, we must move with Him or be miserable.

What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.

When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?

Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable.

Without literature my life would be miserable.