Quotes About Miserable World

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. This is a miserable world", says the Sergeant. "Human life, Mr. Betteredge, is a sort of target
misfortune is always firing at it, and always hitting the mark".

Wilkie Collins

#4. What a miserable world!
trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.

Joseph De Maistre

#5. The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use in my poems are the same as the letters I send into the miserable world.

Kim Hyesoon

#6. It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#7. It's Hard to order just a black coffee these days. That's the kind of miserable world we live in.

Andrew Barger

#8. A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.

C.S. Lewis

#9. His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

Queen Victoria

#10. People on a mission are unstoppable. God bless them for it. It would be a poorer, more miserable world without them.

Gerald Nicosia

#11. We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

Rene Magritte

#12. A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest,
A motley fool! a miserable world!
As I do live by food, I met a fool
Who laid him down and basked him in the sun
And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms,
In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.

William Shakespeare

#13. Were I the wind, I'd blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world.

Herman Melville

#14. All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his Don Quixote in a miserable prison.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#15. 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

#16. It's a miserable thing to leave behind a world which still holds secrets. I

Victor Pelevin

#17. Could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable. All we can do is wait, as calmly as possible, for it to end. Jews and Christians alike are waiting, the whole world is waiting, and many are waiting for death.

Anne Frank

#18. How dare that arrogant prick come in here and ruin her perfectly good day? And not to mention the miserable judge, who should have called in sick this morning if he thought the world was such an awful place.

Tanya Thistleton

#19. A toast to the birthday boy!' Myrna shouted. 'Welcome to the adult world, hon. It's lonely, it's miserable, and God help you. But there are bright spots, and nights like tonight are one of them.

Natalie Standiford

#20. I am surely miserable, and misery is a rainstorm. But this moment is an umbrella, a singular thing, a contained thing, a stolen thing, a world infinite in itself.

Delilah S. Dawson

#21. I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.

Noel Gallagher

#22. Old world's mucky, violent, and crowded," Hildy says, wiping her face with a napkin, "a-splitting right into bits with people a-hating each other and a-killing each other, no one happy till everyone's miserable.

Patrick Ness

#23. But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they live in and to watch them suffer, alone and miserable, trying to live in my world for a change!

Daniel Clowes

#24. I want you to look and think. I want every one to look and think. Half the misery in the world comes first from not looking, and then from not thinking. And I do not want you to be miserable.

Charles Kingsley

#25. You can't wake up miserable and expect something outside yourself to change that mood, you have to be willing to change that mood so you expect the best from your outside world.

Nikki Rowe

#26. Just for the sake of amusement, ask each passenger to tell you his story, and if you find a single one who hasn't often cursed his life, who hasn't told himself he's the most miserable man in the world, you can throw me overboard head first.

Voltaire

#27. We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.

John Adams

#28. In a fallen world, we must be willing to face the fact that however lovingly we preach the gospel, if a man rejects it he will be miserable. It is dark out there.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#29. Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

Aristophanes

#30. Coming out of a dream or a book, the real world is such a deceptive and essentially miserable place.

Phil Elverum

#31. 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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#32. No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#33. No, that's what I think God does to you. He gives you some great gig in which you make a whole heap of money, and you're just on top of the world and on every magazine cover, but your personal life is miserable. And for most of that time, I have to say, my personal life was pretty miserable.

Joan Collins

#34. Youth is the one worthwhile treasure in this world, no matter how miserable the rest of life might be.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#35. But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

Dorothy Osborne

#36. At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#37. If you please the world and die miserable, what was point in living.

A.B. Smith

#38. I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.

Robert Winston

#39. And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles. The world I have known is lost in the shadows. Is he from heaven or from hell? And does he know, that granting me my life today, this man has killed me, even so.
- Javert

Victor Hugo

#40. I am too miserable, too low-spirited, too sick of the world and all in it, including life itself, and I would not care if I heard this moment the flapping of the wings of the angel of death.

Bram Stoker

#41. The world was always going to be remade by people who were too busy to remake themselves first and who left the world twice as miserable as before.

Nick Joaquin

#42. The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

Henry Ward Beecher

#43. Nobody asks about Beethoven's mother's own life - a fairly miserable round of pregnancy, childbirth, and child death. Was Maria Magdalena Keverich van Beethoven put on earth only to produce her wunderkind? Might she have had gifts of her own that she never got to offer the world?

Katha Pollitt

#44. We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#45. Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.

Rajneesh

#46. You wanna another truth?
To have the guts??
To hear it?
To have the money to pay for it?
...
The adults make the children miserable, the adults kill children, the adults abuse the children, the adults have made the world now which you see it...

Deyth Banger

#47. The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.

Hugh Jackman

#48. Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

Lysander Spooner

#49. It is ... [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as a Nation. This is the time of their political probation; this is the moment when the eyes of the World are turned upon them.

George Washington

#50. The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

Paul Farmer

#51. Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness; it's almost pitiful.

Frederick Lenz

#52. As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

Samuel Johnson

#53. The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

Matt Chandler

#54. Nuking Russia might not be a bad idea as far as the bleedin' world is concerned. They've plunged a lot of people into miserable lives. You've only got to be in East Germany to see it. It's a horrible way to live. It's like Doncaster.

Mark E. Smith

#55. The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.

Sherilyn Fenn

#56. miserable of all conditions in this world: that we may always find in it something to comfort ourselves from, and

Daniel Defoe

#57. Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay, although I didn't know it yet. I should've been miserable. But being a scout got me out of myself and into the world.

Christopher Bram

#58. A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Seneca The Younger

#59. I will tell you how this ends, Jarl Grimnar. It ends with you on your knees, as the first High King of Fenris to bare his throat to a foe's blade. Refuse, and suffer the excommunication of your Chapter and the Exterminatus of your miserable home world

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

#60. Truthfully, there're only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won't care if you're happy, only if you're miserable like they are. They eat that shit up.

Crystal Woods

#61. It's scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.

Amartya Sen

#62. Traveling has become such a miserable experience that no Palestinian does it, except those who absolutely have to: students attending foreign universities, patients needing care unavailable in Gaza, businesspeople attempting to pretend that their world will eventually be normal.

Izzeldin Abuelaish

#63. To sum up, as Bibiano said, quoting Parra: that's how it goes, the glory of the world; no world, no glory, not even a miserable mortadella sandwich

Roberto Bolano

#64. This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

Henry Ward Beecher

#65. Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.

Saurabh Sharma

#66. I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.

Jo Brand

#67. Don't use your past history as an excuse to be miserable. Use your past as a testament to show the world just how far you have come.

Miya Yamanouchi

#68. With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world

John Smith

#69. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language. It's a miserable feeling. I've had it all my life. At the high school the girls would stand in groups and just look at me. I was queer and different and everybody knew it.

Jean Webster

#70. Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

Michael Moorcock

#71. The individual is the little conditioned, miserable, frustrated entity, satisfied with his little gods and his little traditions, whereas a human being is concerned with the total welfare, the total misery and total confusion of the world.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#72. Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?

John Green

#73. Two things I wanted most in the world: for Q to die a miserable death, and for him to fuck me.

Pepper Winters

#74. What has miserable, inefficient Mexico ... to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

Walt Whitman

#75. A miserable scrooge whom lacks charity for the entire world is a menace to society. Spiritual sullenness destroys men quicker than gunfire.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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

Seneca.

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

Ann Patchett

#78. 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

#79. But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

Francis Bacon

#80. Maybe this is how his miserable life was going to end: death by pussy.
Which when he thought about it, it made sense. It was because of pussy that you came screaming into this world; might as well be pussy that took you out of it.

Madeline Sheehan

#81. There's that kind of money in the world. It aggravates you to have it, makes you miserable to spend it, and you hate yourself when it's gone. And when you hate yourself, you feel like spending money. Except there's no money left. And no hope.

Haruki Murakami

#82. None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better ... I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything, and they're absolutely the most miserable people in the world. So it won't do anything for you unless you're a happy person and can have peace with yourself.

Lenny Kravitz

#83. Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

Amy Lee

#84. Have you lost the girl you love?' 'That's what I'm trying to figure out. I can't make up my mind. It all depends what construction you place on the words "I never want to see or speak to you again in this world or the next, you miserable fathead."' 'Did she say that?

P.G. Wodehouse

#85. You wanna another truth?
Do you have the guts??
To hear it?
Do you have the money to pay for it?
...
The adults make the children miserable, the adults kill children, the adults abuse the children, the adults have made the world, famous as now which you see it...

Deyth Banger

#86. There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Erma Bombeck

#87. And I was thinking that it was so weird that the world could keep turning. I mean, that honey would still need to be delivered and vegetables would have to be picked and laundry would need to be done when I was so miserable.

Laura Ruby

#88. Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have the miserable conviction the we alone suffer to the point of unbearable intensity. Unhappiness is always to feel oneself imprisoned in one's own skin, in one's own brain.

Jacques Lusseyran

#89. I armed her against the censure of the world, showed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they could not bring us to enjoy life, they would at least teach us to endure it.

Oliver Goldsmith

#90. That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard. Joanna

Vicki Pettersson

#91. What a terrible thing it is to try to let off a little bit of truth into this miserable humbug of a world!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#92. People don't understand us. They don't understand me. They think it's so black and white, that he makes me miserable and that I should be with someone else and that I deserve something else.
But it's not black and white at all. It's gray. It's a never ending world of gray.

Amanda Grace

#93. What an enormous longing for a new human order there was in the era between the world wars, and what a miserable failure to live up to it.'(Arthur Koestler)

Tony Judt

#94. For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

Anthony Bourdain

#95. People who always want to be happy and pursue it above all else are some of the most miserable people in the world.

Henry Cloud

#96. A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the world, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the sun.

Matthew Henry

#97. Of all the people in the world who have miserable lives - and, as I'm sure you know, there are quite a few - the Baudelaire youngsters take the cake, a phrase which here means that more horrible things have happened them than just about anybody.

Lemony Snicket

#98. There's three things I've seen in this world that seem to make a body happy or miserable. It's no money or health or any of those other things most people talk about. It's knowing where you fit in this world, being able to go after your dreams, and love.

Patricia McLinn

#99. But if we don't figure out the way the world works and is, and if we don't live in harmony with it, we will be miserable and no better off than the dumb animals.

Bart D. Ehrman

#100. Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into sentence: Be True! Be True! Be True! Show freely to the world if not the worst, yet some trait whereby the worst can be inferred.

Nathaniel Hawthorne