Quotes About Making Someone's Life Miserable

#1. There's a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are "making a living". No, they're not. They're dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful.

Adrian Tan

#2. Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.

Doris Lessing

#3. Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling.

Carolyn Parkhurst

#4. All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals ... and they killed Elvis Presley.

Bjork

#5. Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!

Geraldine Ferraro

#6. 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.

Amber Benson

#7. There's magic in stories, magic in hope, and magic in coming together. I have learnt from people's stories, been inspired by their hope, and been strengthened by their coming together.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#8. If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!

Joyce Meyer

#9. Being with someone else and making that person feel as if they were no importance in our life is far worse than feeling alone and miserable.

Paulo Coelho

#10. A relationship will either make the majority of your life happy or miserable. It is important to take your time and make sure that it is a wise choice before making a commitment.

Pamela Cummins

#11. A man can be whip smart and witty and caught up in the gale of life, chatting up roomfuls of people and making them laugh till their teeth damn near fall out, and at the same time, he can be the world's loneliest, most miserable creature.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#12. Well?"
"Well, what" she asked.
"Are we gonna do this or not?"
... "Do what? Should I whine and complain like the little bitch I am so you can pat me on the head and buy me something pretty to shut me up?

Kit Rocha

#13. 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?

Nancy Farmer

#14. A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for.

Mark Shuttleworth

#15. 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.

Colin Marston

#16. I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and I'd rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am.

Neal Stephenson

#17. In everything we do in this life we are making ourselves the kind of persons we shall be for all eternity: loving or hateful, egocentric or outgoing, fulfilled or frustrated, beautiful or ugly, ecstatically delighted or utterly miserable.

Thomas Dubay

#18. When that bastard calls back, you tell him he's won this round. I'll marry him. But I don't take well to being blackmailed, and tell him I intend to spend the rest of my life making him miserable, got that?

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#19. Time, thou anticipat'st my dread exploits.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook
Unless the deed go with it. From this moment
The very firstlings of my heart shall be
The firstlings of my hand. And even now,
To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done

William Shakespeare

#20. We also have people dying longer, we are able to keep people alive without much quality of life in many cases. We haven't done a great job of making healthspan match up with lifespan, which is both miserable and unbelievably costly - and frightening.

Ken Dychtwald

#21. I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.

Megan Abbott

#22. Here am I shedding one of my life-skins and all they will say is, 'Bernard is spending ten days in Rome'.

Virginia Woolf