Best 301 quotes in «miserable quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

No one can ruin shows, but Internet trolls sure can make things miserable.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are

None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.

Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.

Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!

Now he's miserable and depressed.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

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.

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.

One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.