Best 301 quotes in «miserable quotes» category

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

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 couldn't just get up every day and be miserable and complain.

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

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

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

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.

I'd swap everything I've done in my miserable little life to bat like Virender Sehwag

If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.

If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.

If you are happy, you are happy; nobody asks you why you are happy. Yes, if you are miserable, a question is relevant. If you are miserable, somebody can ask why you are miserable, and the question is relevant - because misery is against nature, something wrong is happening. When you are happy, nobody asks you why you are happy, except for a few neurotics. There are such people; I cannot deny the possibility.

If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

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

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement.

If you know Christ and him crucified, you know enough to make you happy, supposing you know nothing else. And without this, all your other knowledge cannot keep you from being everlastingly miserable.

If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.

If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better in the morning. This, of course, is utter nonsense, because a miserable experience remains a miserable experience even on the loveliest of morning.

If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

If you must leave your job after three months - and I recommend staying a year unless you're totally miserable - then downplay the short tenure both in your resume and in interviews.

I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.

If you want to be miserable, think of yourself.  If you want to be happy, think of others.

I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves

I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.

If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

I had an iPhone and a Droid and both of them were miserable pieces of equipment.

I just think Radiohead are f-in' miserable bastards.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

I'm so miserable without you, it's almost as if you're here!

In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are delivered from the miserable pressure of the will. We celebrate the Sabbath from the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

In giving respect we can be very happy, because we can do it in all situations. When we expect respect we are miserable, because it is not that everyone in every situation will respect us.

I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all of them.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.

I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

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.

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.

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.

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

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.