Miserable Quotes

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.

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

Life is too short to be miserable.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

The person 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.

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

Choosing to be miserable is an option, but not one I recommend.

But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.

The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.

I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.