Miserable Quotes

For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

Unfortunately this is where comedy works, where people are the most miserable.

Hippy, you think everything is a conspiracy. Everything is!

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.

O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

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.

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

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

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.

Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!

But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

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.

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

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

People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.

No one can ruin shows, but Internet trolls sure can make things miserable.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.

I don't like black. You wear black when you're miserable.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

I think what makes so many other actors miserable is focusing completely on making other plans. They're obsessed with their haircut and their headshot and their agent, their IMDB profile or whatever.

Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back.

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time.

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

Buttercup, miserable even with Prim’s constant attention, huddles in the cube and exhales cat breath in my face.

Although money alone won't make us happy, the lack of money surely will make us miserable.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

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

I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

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.

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.

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

What is more miserable than discontent?

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.