Miserable Quotes

Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

If I was doing something for the money, I'd be quite miserable.

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

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.

I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

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

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

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.

Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

The best thing ever is when some guy in his 50s taps me on the shoulder and says, 'I just want to let you know I hate my job, I hate my wife, and I come home and I watch reruns of your show and it's the only half hour of the day when I laugh and I forget how miserable life is.'

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something.