Miserable Quotes

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN.

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time."

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

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

I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

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.

Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

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

Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.

For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

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.