Miserable Quotes

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.

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!

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!

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

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.

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.

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

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

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.

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.

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.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

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

I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.