Best 301 quotes in «miserable quotes» category

Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41)

A lot of people wouldn't feel miserable in this environment. A lot of people aren't dating my girlfriend.

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable.

At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.

Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you're just really miserable.

As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

Being rich and miserable has got to be better than poor and unhappy.

But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise

Choose satisfaction over salary. Better to be happy with little than miserable with much.

Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked. "Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of that. I suppose it does. What other pleasure can a creature have whose life consists of making everyone else miserable?

Contact lenses make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That's what creates the pouting and brooding character.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise  rable: il est donc mise  rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.

Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.

Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty...all of it. I would feel everything. It would all be mine.

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

Have you ever noticed how when you're happy, time seems to pass by fast, while when you're miserable it goes real slow? Life would have been a blink with you whether it lasted a millennium or a month.

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.

Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?

Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous, and good.

I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.