Miserable famous quotes
05-15-2025
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If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
-- Al Yankovic -
My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
-- Alan Cumming -
The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.
-- Alyson Noel -
When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.
-- Amy Lee -
I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.
-- Amy Tan -
The people that tell you what you enjoy is wrong, or come in your life and tell you what you're wearing is wrong are miserable because they focus on the things that they don't like.
-- Andy Biersack -
I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.
-- Angel Haze -
Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.
-- Angelo Patri -
But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.
-- Ann Brashares -
I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.
-- Anne Rice -
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.
-- Archibald Alexander -
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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 -
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
-- Ben Okri -
When the Spirit of God moves within us, we must move with Him or be miserable.
-- Beth Moore -
Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure.
-- Bill Bright -
I'm so miserable without you, it's almost as if you're here!
-- Billy Ray Cyrus -
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
-- Billy Sunday -
En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
-- Blaise Pascal -
But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
-- Bob Schieffer -
I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.
-- Brett Hull -
I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.
-- C. S. Forester -
It's a lot easier to like people when they can't make life miserable for you anymore.
-- Carol Kendall -
Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?
-- Charles Bradlaugh -
Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.
-- Charles L. Allen -
He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.
-- Chris Isaak -
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.
-- Christopher Willard -
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.
-- Chuck Norris -
I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
-- Cillian Murphy -
Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.
-- Cintra Wilson -
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
-- Claudius -
Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.
-- Cyprian -
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better in the morning. This, of course, is utter nonsense, because a miserable experience remains a miserable experience even on the loveliest of morning.
-- Daniel Handler -
The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be.
-- Daniel Pipes -
Choosing to be miserable is an option, but not one I recommend.
-- Darren Johnson -
No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.
-- David Starr Jordan -
I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine.
-- Diana Krall -
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
-- Dick Cavett -
I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
-- Djuna Barnes -
I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.
-- Donald Ray Pollock -
Hippy, you think everything is a conspiracy. Everything is!
-- Ed Harris -
Happiness is your choice to make. How happy or how miserable do you want to be?
-- Edgar Cayce -
One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.
-- Edith Sitwell -
When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
-- Edmund Hillary -
But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.
-- Edward Furlong -
Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
-- Elizabeth Edwards -
Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.
-- Elizabeth Montagu -
You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel -
Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.
-- Ellen G. White -
Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.
-- Erik Satie -
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
-- Evelyn Waugh -
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
-- Evelyn Waugh -
Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.
-- Federico Fellini -
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.
-- George Gissing -
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are
-- Germany Kent -
God has a way of making the most miserable things...Beauti ful.
-- Gianna Jessen -
I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.
-- Graham Norton -
The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.
-- Greg Laurie -
A miserable collection of little secrets, that's all any of us is.Â
-- Guillaume Musso -
By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything
-- H. G. Wells -
If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now
-- Hannah Kent -
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
-- Harry Kalas -
We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.
-- Harry Stack Sullivan -
It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.
-- Harvey Mackay -
When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.
-- Helen Mirren -
The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
I ask for your forgiveness. I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry.
-- Hwang Woo-suk -
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
-- Imelda Marcos -
If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.
-- Immanuel Kant -
You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.
-- Ina Garten -
Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
-- Irvin D. Yalom -
One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.
-- Irving Stone -
You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma
-- Jack Gantos -
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
-- Jacopo Sannazaro -
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
-- James Boswell -
I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.
-- James Dean Bradfield -
I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
-- James Hillman -
But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?
-- Jane Austen -
When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.
-- Jane Austen -
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
-- Janis Joplin -
Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn’t feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad.
-- Jenna Black -
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 -
How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.
-- Jerry Stahl -
Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?
-- Jessica Zafra -
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.
-- Johann Arndt -
Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.
-- John Boyne
