Miserable Quotes

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably.

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.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

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.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.

I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.

We know there's no use in getting miserable, so we go out on the town instead!

I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

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.

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

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.

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