Miserable Quotes

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.

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.

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

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.

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.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.

But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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.

I love what I do. When a month goes by and I'm not working, I'm miserable.

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.