Miserable Quotes
- Page 4Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
Bette Davis
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.
Fuzzy Zoeller
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.
Alicia Sacramone
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.
William Wyler
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Swami Vivekananda
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.
Patrick White
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.
John Stuart Mill
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castenada
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!
Harry Connick, Jr.
I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
Kinky Friedman
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
Larry David
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.
Thomas Traherne
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.
Amy Tan
Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.
Sienna Miller
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.
John Grierson
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
Helen Gurley Brown
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.
Maxim Gorky
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.
Todd Solondz
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.
Joseph Conrad
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.
Trent Reznor
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
Elizabeth Hardwick