Miserable Quotes · Page 12

If you want to live a miserable life, making your life all about other people is the way to do it.

— Tara Westover

“As has been said, the truth will set you free - but first it will make you miserable.”

— Malcolm Watts

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.

— Ryan Phillippe

The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.

— Greg Laurie

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

— Warren Ellis

Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

— Ellen G. White

Better to have a short life full of what you like doing then a long one spent in a miserable way...

— Anonymous

“Don't let feeling lonely push you into the arms of a person who will make you miserable.”

— Stephan Labossiere

Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

— Jake Roberts

I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.

— Tullian Tchividjian

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

— Anonymous

Miserable people sit around and hate and make up shit about other people because they dont have shit and aint doing shit…

— Anonymous

I almost went broke. I didn't file bankruptcy, but I had some miserable times there for two or three years.

— Carlos Beruff

I've been in clubs. I don't like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people.…

— Joaquin Phoenix

We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are…

— Steven Pinker

What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most…

— Marquis de Custine

I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I…

— Philip Yancey

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of…

— Marquis de Sade

The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like…

— Yvon Chouinard

I GO DOWN TO THE SHORE I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves…

— Mary Oliver

“Life is always going to throw us curve balls. It is always going to rock the boat just when we are getting…

— Stephanee Killen

'Courtney' is a more punk-rock kids' book. It has this precious veneer that Courtney's terrible behavior trashes. And it's basically about how…

— Ted Naifeh

On a practical level, I'm uncomfortable at comedy clubs because there are so many shitty dude comics who have made my life…

— Lindy West

He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and,…

— Nathaniel Chapman

Larry David called me and said, "You can never watch The West Wing again. Either the show is going to be great…

— Aaron Sorkin

In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It…

— Martin Luther

“Nothing had worked out the way he’d hoped. He should’ve expected it by now, maybe. After all, things never had before. And…

— Joe Abercrombie

For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War…

— Norman Mailer

All right. Are you going to come back? Do you want any soup?" "No," said Jace. "Do you think Hodge will want…

— Cassandra Clare

I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting…

— James Anthony Froude

But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through.…

— Christopher McDougall

The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be.

— Daniel Pipes

“Life's too short to be miserable, basically. If you can be happy, then be happy.”

— Jonathan Morris

Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

— Thomas Carlyle

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

— John Lennon

“What a miserable state for a girl of former beauty!”

— Sarah J. Maas

“No one can be miserable forever. No one is meant to be.”

— Megan Derr

Choose satisfaction over salary. Better to be happy with little than miserable with much.

— Max Lucado

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart