Best 301 quotes in «miserable quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I've never known about anyone being helped by being told how wretched, miserable, sinful, and evil they are.

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

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.

Larry David called me and said, "You can never watch The West Wing again. Either the show is going to be great without you and you're going to be miserable, or the show is going to be less than great without you and you're going to be miserable." So I had them send a tape of the first episode that I didn't do. I put it in the VCR and I don't think I got 15 seconds in before I leapt up and slammed it off! It felt like I was watching somebody make out with my girlfriend. I've never seen a West Wing episode in seasons five, six or seven.

I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.

I was sort of miserable and depressed. Music was my savior, but it was also the thing that I felt at times was breaking my heart.

Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?

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 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 was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged and warped.

I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

Let the artist have just enough to eat, and the tools of this trade: ask nothing of him. Materially make the life of the artist sufficiently miserable to be unattractive, and no-one will take to art save those in whom the divine daemon is absolute.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short.

Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

Life is too short to be miserable.

Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.

Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food.

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.

Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.

Miserable people love to make other people miserable. I don't hate them, I just feel sorry for them.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.

My adolescence was quite miserable, when I look back on it, at least my early part of my adolescence. Because there was anti-Semitism in Peoria, and I didn't feel that when I was in elementary school.