Quotes About Miserable

#1. It is, he thought, the greatest luxury of our existence, no matter how miserable, that we don't know our allotted span of days.

John Katzenbach

#2. I hate seeing fat girls on TV or in movies, because the only way the world seems to be okay with putting a fat person on camera is if they're miserable with themselves or if they're the jolly best friend. Well, I'm neither of those things.

Julie Murphy

#3. I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

Kinky Friedman

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

Thomas Traherne

#5. Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.

Tim Sandlin

#6. I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy.

Frank Fairfield

#7. 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.

Albert Bushnell Hart

#8. I'd rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary.

Michelle Magorian

#9. We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

Lenny Kravitz

#10. I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.

Ben Affleck

#11. Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.

Charles L. Allen

#12. The only person who can make you miserable is yourself, if you hold back because
you're too afraid of failure to take a chance.

Shana Norris

#13. The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.

Clarence H. Burns

#14. I've done the being-miserable-apart thing for the last three months and it blows. I'm ready to try the scared-shitless-together part.

Georgia Cates

#15. Hold it right there. The only agreement we ever had was that you intended to make me as miserable as possible, and I intended to courageously make the best of an intolerable situation like valiant Southern women have always done.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#16. Just the other day I came across a statement: A perfectionist is a person who takes great pains, and gives even greater pains to others. And the outcome is just a miserable world!

Osho

#17. I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

David Chase

#18. The Remain campaign ... I've never seen a more miserable offering. All they are saying is stay in and we'll do our best to make sure that Britain's Parliamentary independence isn't eroded faster than we can possibly imagine.

Boris Johnson

#19. "I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Samuel Johnson

#20. Those who look on other people's misery with indifference are the most
miserable of all.

Paulo Coelho

#21. 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.

Betty Friedan

#22. What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

Andre Malraux

#23. Those who aren't afraid to cry are the dreamers, and those who aren't afraid to lament are the lovers. The rest are just miserable.

Gregor Collins

#24. ["Ambition has been so strong as to make very miserable men take comfort that they were supreme in misery;

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#25. 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.

Angel Haze

#26. Long commutes make you fat, stressed, and miserable. Even short commutes stab at your happiness.

Jason Fried

#27. All they did was stir up desire, and longing, and hopelessness, a trio of miserable caged wildcats that had been installed in me without my permission, or at least without my understanding how long they would live and how vicious they would be.

Alice Munro

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

Blaise Pascal

#29. Rejection Is God's Protection
When someone rejects or breaks up with you, it may be a blessing in disguise. The person was not right for you. Or maybe you would have eventually been miserable with them. Now the door is open for someone else much better to come into your life.

Pamela Cummins

#30. It's never like we're up there being miserable at work, that's not something that happens for us. We love our work. So, when the performer loves what they're doing, it's easy for us to love what we're doing.

Jennifer Abbott

#31. My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.

Wil Wheaton

#32. Then go get dressed for your Master,"Danny said with a slow,dark smile."The snake and Eve worked together,you and I will too. We'll make sure our Adam enjoys Eden before he leaves. We'll give himstrawberry so sweet it will sustain him through a whole, miserable lifetime of bland vanilla.

Kele Moon

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

Jake Roberts

#34. There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

John Wooden

#35. How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.

Jerry Stahl

#36. Sonia lives her life fully. If she dies tomorrow, she'll die happy. If she lives the way you want her to live, she'll die miserable. So leave her alone, okay?

Sonia Sotomayor

#37. If you love someone enough, you find you can forgive them for just about anything, because living without them is more miserable than any grudge you could hold.

Linda Kage

#38. I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.

Marquis De Custine

#39. We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.

Kristin Armstrong

#40. Why do we procrastinate leaving? The denial phase is a humbling one. It takes a while to come to terms with our miserable luck. Rowley puts it this way: 'Fires only happen to other people.' We have a tendency to believe that everything is OK because, well, it almost always has been before.

Amanda Ripley

#41. Gabriel sighed and leaned back in the throne. Are we going to be dramatic now? Maybe I should call for some wine of my own and we can wallow and aimlessly fight through our miserable drunkenness.

Chelsea Fine

#42. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world

Ann Patchett

#43. If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

Woody Allen

#44. There is nothing encouraging about fortune and thus one must remain indifferent by it for it is a trickster desperate to be chased, chased till the very end, only to show us how miserable her path is and how inappropriate it was to choose her over effort.

Chirag Tulsiani

#45. Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable.

Jeph Jacques

#46. For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.

Lenny Kravitz

#47. Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#48. huddled together at the left end of the bar, as silent and miserable as kittens in a sack with the bridge getting close.

Donald E. Westlake

#49. A child, I'm miserable admitting it, a child stands like a priest under his father's sky. Why do you fate me to fail you?

Denis Johnson

#50. The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

Baron De Montesquieu

#51. The Devil ... clutched hold of the miserable young man ... and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.

Martin Luther

#52. Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.

Julie Powell

#53. I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

Michael Shannon

#54. We're journeying constantly, but there is always a machine and books, and your body is always close to me and the look in your eyes never changes. People are saying we will be miserable, we will regret, but we are happy, we are laughing always, we are singing. We are talking Spanish and French and

Anais Nin

#55. If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

#56. Stop focusing on how miserable you are and focus on how many opportunities you have to get better.

Debasish Mridha

#57. Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

William D. Hoard

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

Amy Lee

#59. [ ... ] knowing his mood was miserable from lack of sleep [ ... ], knowing he was unfair [ ... ], knowing all these things but unable to stop the dark torrent of his thoughts.

Steven Erikson

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

Robert Anthony

#61. What is more miserable than discontent?

William Shakespeare

#62. Actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death.

Stella Adler

#63. If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.

Seneca.

#64. Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses? I cant find them. Mom: I haven't seen them. Calvin: (with glasses, to Dad) Calvin, go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character!

Bill Watterson

#65. If you want to be happy or if you want to be miserable - either way is your choice. So choose to be happy.

Debasish Mridha

#66. It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

Virginia Woolf

#67. The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.

Lisa Kleypas

#68. Although America loved its tough guys, they weren't ready to vote for leaders who exhibited no compassion for the downtrodden and miserable, for on any given day they might constitute a majority.

David Baldacci

#69. I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.

Elizabeth I

#70. You spend your whole life looking for answers because you think the next answer will solve all your problems: make you a little less miserable, because when you run out of questions you don't just run out of answers ... you run out hope.

House

#71. Sleep deprivation is physically miserable and creatively cathartic, as internal landscapes rise up from their dormant ashes.

Jaeda DeWalt

#72. And she refused to go to that miserable place he had dragged her to so many times, to hope for a thing that was unchangeable.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#73. Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

Edna Ferber

#74. It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Abraham Lincoln

#75. If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

Boyd K. Packer

#76. I can be tolerant of traffic jams and disorganization, faulty technology, miserable weather, and bland foods. People, however, require more than the cold, grudging favor of being tolerated. They require love.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#77. Each day, a new crisis, a new massacre, a new threat of extinction, disease, internecine conflict, meteorological catastrophe... Behold man. Violent, self-serving and ruthless when in power; exploited, miserable and diseased when not.

Meg Rosoff

#78. Why is it...that the good things that pop up almost always get clobbered by these miserable darn things that seem to choke out everything like stinkweed?

A. E. Hotchner

#79. Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

Dalai Lama

#80. Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

Ellen G. White

#81. One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.

Jon Gordon

#82. I tried to kickbox once right after I had my first baby, and I was so miserable; it was so hard. And I went home, and I passed out for three hours because it's so hard.

Leslie Mann

#83. I always hated...all sad songs. I thought they made happy people miserable. Now I think I understand them better. Bards write them because they can't hold them back. Sadness has got to flow out or it gets stuck and turns bitter.

Jonathan Renshaw

#84. As wretched as she was, she wanted Harry to be miserable, too. And yet, she was aware of an underlying sense of sadness. Theirs may have been the first war in which there were no winners, only losers.

Sharon Kay Penman

#85. Trying to cut corners and get around rules makes [anyone] miserable. When you
'make yourself mind yourself,' when you know you are going to do what you say
you will do, you will know joy.

Barbara Workman

#86. O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils

Joseph Alleine

#87. To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.

David Dudley Field II

#88. We are indeed miserable, my friends, but we don't have to be dismal about it.

Brian Herbert

#89. I don't really diet or anything. I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of all these actresses looking like birds I'd rather look a little chubby on camera and look like a person in real life, than look great on screen and look like a scarecrow in real life.

Jennifer Lawrence

#90. But to appear happy when I am so miserable - Oh! who can require it?

Jane Austen

#91. Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits

Jared Diamond

#92. I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.

Anne Bronte

#93. 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.

Viola Davis

#94. People always accuse me of making these dark, depressing movies. 'Why do you have to pick up on real issues? People are so exhausted and miserable.'

Anurag Kashyap

#95. If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Joyce Meyer

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

Zosia Mamet

#97. O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

William Gilbert

#98. Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Janis Joplin

#99. Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everyone else.

Chris Rock

#100. The top head would have controlled everything and made his poor little butt-brother miserable.

Katherine Dunn