Best 301 quotes in «miserable quotes» category

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

Now he's miserable and depressed.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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