Miserable Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

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 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.

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.

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.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

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.