Miserable Quotes

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.

I love what I do. When a month goes by and I'm not working, I'm miserable.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

I'm not going to starve just to be thin... I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable.

I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.

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

Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.

You've got to allow yourself the things you enjoy or you'll just be miserable.

If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

Life is too short to be miserable.

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

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

I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

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

I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

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

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.

So, what genetic disposition do you need to be a CFO? Essentially, you need to be miserable, you need to be the sort of person who takes drinks away from people at the end of a party.

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.

I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

There are plenty of miserable millionaires all over the place.

I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.

Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

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

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

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

We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?

Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.

We know there's no use in getting miserable, so we go out on the town instead!

I was miserable as a kid.

We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?

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.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

Well, it's not hard to be number one entertaining Jew. Some of them are quite bleeding bloody miserable, really.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.