Top 100 Quotes About Miserable
#1. Our natural state of being is joy. It takes so much energy to think negative thoughts to speak negative words, to feel miserable. The easy path is good thoughts, good words, and good deeds. Take the easy path
Rhonda Byrne
#2. It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.
Paulo Coelho
#3. Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.
Simone Elkeles
#4. A cold, miserable little hamlet on the eastern coast of America called Piper's Grave.
Susanna Clarke
#5. You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for.
David James Duncan
#6. To be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering.
John Milton
#7. Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce
#8. 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
#9. The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.
Matthew Perry
#10. The Philosopher, too, says of the wicked (Ethic. ix, 4) that "their soul is divided against itself ... one part pulls this way, another that"; and afterwards he concludes, saying: "If wickedness makes a man so miserable, he should strain every nerve to avoid vice.
Thomas Aquinas
#11. It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
Jean De La Fontaine
#12. Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness and special interests. At this point we're talking about a state of mind that takes positive glee in inflicting further suffering upon the already miserable.
Paul Krugman
#13. What a miserable world!
trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.
Joseph De Maistre
#14. Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure.
Bill Bright
#16. Miserable people love to make other people miserable. I don't hate them, I just feel sorry for them.
Brandi Glanville
#17. Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're miserable, nothing is working in life, it doesn't matter. Smile anyway.
Frederick Lenz
#18. It's about showing up. And sometimes I don't do it. I almost always regret it, but sometimes I don't do it. Sometimes I walk into a situation where I'm intimidated and I want to be liked and I want to fit in, and I don't choose authenticity. And it's always pretty miserable.
Brene Brown
#19. But there was something more miserable still - it was the clutch of solitude at her heart, the sense of being swept like a stray uprooted growth down the heedless current of the years.
Edith Wharton
#20. Any woman who can make you happy has all the information she needs to make you miserable if she wants to.
Judith Ivory
#21. An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment.
Anthony Standen
#22. I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.
Robert Rauschenberg
#23. It took him a long, miserable time before he realized the truth of things: There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.
Patrick Rothfuss
#24. 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.
Paula Poundstone
#25. Life presents us with moments of decision - crossroads where we either choose a new direction and move on, or cling to what we already have and be miserable.
Mary Buchan
#26. Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.
Richard Cecil
#27. Gratitude makes you a better, stronger, wiser person. Ingratitude makes you a negative, angry, miserable person. Which person do you choose to be?
Tanya Masse
#28. I know what makes me happy. I know what makes me miserable. I'm trying to stay on the happy side.
Chamique Holdsclaw
#29. A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by? ...
Thomas Carlyle
#30. It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
Jonathan Swift
#31. What the mind forgets is that the ability to respond is the basis of life. If the ability is acknowledged willingly, you become blissful. If it happens unwillingly, you become miserable. Being
Sadhguru
#32. I hated Alfred. He was a miserable, pious, tight-fisted king who distrusted me because I was no Christian, because I was a northerner, and because I had given him his kingdom back at Ethandun. And as reward he had given me Fifhaden. Bastard.
Bernard Cornwell
#33. Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.
Dale Archer
#34. The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]
Alberto Moravia
#35. The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
Charles Caleb Colton
#36. We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look forward with joy, to the period, when it shall be despoiled of all its usurpations, and bound forever in the chains, with which it had loaded its miserable victims.
James Madison
#37. Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.
Walter Mischel
#38. Most sapients confuse working hard with being miserable.
Becky Chambers
#39. He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#40. 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
#41. I am satisfied: miserable wretch! you have determined to live, and I am satisfied.
Mary Shelley
#42. Some of the most miserable people I have ever met have been people who are very popular with the public, but down inside are empty and miserable.
Billy Graham
#43. Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.
Joseph Addison
#44. Long hours of working barefoot in the pans saturates their legs so much with salt that these farmers cannot even have a satisfactory cremation after death because their lower limbs do not burn. It is a miserable existence.
Verghese Kurien
#45. We're given a hand to play. We can be negative and be miserable or be positive and happy, making the best of it.
Terri Haynes Roach
#46. Work to connect yourself to the allness of life
instead of identifying with the smallness of it
and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.
Guy Finley
#47. It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#48. It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic
I'll shut up.
Peter Greenaway
#49. Penelope glared at her, "Madame said that men love damsels in distress. She failed to point out that damsels in distress look wretched, miserable and downright horrid."
"Men do love damsels in distress. We simply need to look lovely while fighting mortal peril.
Anya Wylde
#50. Looping. Some days are so dark I can't see anything but a miserable fog of number after number, word after word, clouds of verbs and nouns and none of them the ones that will make time go backward.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#51. It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]
Publilius Syrus
#52. A miserable person always attracts miseries, but a joyful person seems to find joy in miseries.
Debasish Mridha
#53. Why be miserable when you can be happy? It's an obvious choice to me.
Tillie Cole
#54. You can never get rid of all of your fears. Some are necessary and a part of life. But most of our fears are illusory, based on risks or threats that exist only in our minds. Such fears constrain and make you miserable. The feeling of moving past a particular fear is one of liberation and freedom.
Robert Greene
#56. Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.
Richard Rohr
#57. There are two evil futurities and one good. A miserable future existence is evil; and annihilation, or nigban, is an evil - a fearful evil. A happy future existence is alone good.
Adoniram Judson
#58. I do not pretend to say that I was not very much pleased with him; but while I have Udolpho to read, I feel as if nobody could make me miserable.
Jane Austen
#59. I wanted to kiss you for a long time, and I decided that might be my only chance. I've been miserable ever since." Troy ran his fingers along her jaw. "It was almost better when I didn't know how it felt to kiss you.
Cindi Madsen
#60. How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?
Beatrice Sparks
#61. If I loved someone, I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely.
Valerie Tripp
#62. In judging of them, he judged leniently; the whole bias of his profession had taught him to think that they were more sinned against than sinning, and that the animosity with which they had been pursued was venomous and unjust; but he had not the less regarded their plight as most miserable.
Anthony Trollope
#63. Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
Marvin Gaye
#64. Why not? For your information I'm hoping it doesn't last more than a month or two myself.?
His words stung as sharply as a slap across the face.
Maybe by that time you'll be miserable enough to be willing to marry me-
Debbie Macomber
#65. Blessings will never cease to shower upon those who mind their own life with humility of accepting mistakes versus those who find joy in judging others to divert attention from their miserable lives.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#66. You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.
Diablo Cody
#67. her, then make her miserable so she'll leave you," the dwarf said. "That's what I would do.
Dawn Napier
#68. I am content, in these four walls, without normality. Lonely? Yes. Miserable? At times. But that is what being content is. Comfortable enough with the situation not to prompt change.
Alessandra Torre
#69. He managed a single laugh. "Who would have thought from the first time we met that we'd be sitting here? You couldn't have told me three months ago that I'd be this miserable over saying goodbye to a girl."
My stomach sank. "I don't want you to be miserable."
"Then don't go.
Jamie McGuire
#70. But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.
John Milton
#71. Don't let feeling lonely push you into the arms of a person who will make you miserable.
Stephan Labossiere
#72. My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.
Billy Collins
#74. At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.
Jill Scott
#75. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
Erica Jong
#76. Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
Franz Kafka
#77. I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.
Salma Hayek
#78. Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future ...
Bill Gates
#79. To the devil with every miserable desire to seem more than one is
Robert Walser
#80. It's often in your most miserable times that you will realize your potential
Thabiso Monkoe
#81. The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
Seneca.
#82. The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.
Reggie Lee
#84. 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.
Viggo Mortensen
#85. As long as you leave to others the responsibility to make you happy, you are going to always be miserable, because that is actually your job
Linda Alfiori
#87. Whatever you remember, or feel, you need to know that whatever they were they did one worthwhile thing in their miserable lives. And that was you. Whatever they were, they couldn't destroy that. They couldn't stop you from becoming.
Nora Roberts
#88. There are only two kinds of men who become dentists. The ones who love it and ones who get miserable. Think round and you'll see I'm right.
Margery Allingham
#89. That's the worst ... or the best ... of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable ... and succeeding ... even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
L.M. Montgomery
#90. Four days ago, I realized that being alone was better than having his sorry ass company making me miserable every fucking day. Four days ago, I realized that being alone was better than living every day lonely with him.
Jessica N. Watkins
#91. It's Hard to order just a black coffee these days. That's the kind of miserable world we live in.
Andrew Barger
#92. Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.
Mignon McLaughlin
#93. Were I the wind, I'd blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world.
Herman Melville
#94. Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.
Plutarch
#95. I tried to build an igloo out of orange peel but it kept falling down and even when it stood up I didn't have an eskimo to put in it, so I had to invent a story about 'How Eskimo Got Eaten', which made me even more miserable. It's always the same with diversions; you get involved
Jeanette Winterson
#96. It's a lot easier to like people when they can't make life miserable for you anymore.
Carol Kendall
#97. Saul may be the one with Alzheimer's, but I'm the one suffering a long and miserable life.
Eric Rill
#98. This was my miserable choice. I brought it upon myself.
Tahereh Mafi
#99. A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.
Steve Backley
#100. She could tell by Philip's attitude that his writing wasn't going well again. He was joyous when it was and miserable when it wasn't.
Candace Bushnell
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