Miserable Quotes

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.

If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.

When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.

I ask for your forgiveness. I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry.

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

I'm not miserable, but I can't not be angry.

I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.

On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.

In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

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.

I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary.

We've done a miserable job of preparing people for today's world, let alone tomorrow's.

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time - time disappears.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

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.

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.

You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?

If you must leave your job after three months - and I recommend staying a year unless you're totally miserable - then downplay the short tenure both in your resume and in interviews.

The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.

Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short.

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

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.

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.

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.

I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.

You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable.

Being rich and miserable has got to be better than poor and unhappy.

Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.

Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.

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.

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.

People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.

I'm angry at what's happening to America and angry with myself that I can't do more. I would be miserable if I couldn't bear witness.

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

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems.

I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.