Miserable Quotes

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.

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'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.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

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

I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

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.

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

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

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

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

You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

Scotland is a much lighter and more fun place than I thought it was. I was miserable when I was there. But it wasn't Scotland's fault. It was my circumstances. I was - I hate to say the word humbled - but that's what it felt like. I was wrong about this place. This is a great place full of very fun people.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.