Miserable Quotes · Page 13

One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.

— Edith Sitwell

First semester I took classes like econ and that kind of stuff, and I was miserable.

— Lucy DeVito

“We either make ourselves miserable, or make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

— Carlos Castaneda

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

— Baltasar Gracian

I learned I could be miserable anywhere in the world. I learned I really was an American.

— Lynne Tillman

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

— Ann Patchett

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

— Paul Frank Baer

Life is too short to be miserable so quickly do away with all things undesirable.

— Joel Robert Pugh

The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.

— Krist Novoselic

“You made me happy when I should have been miserable. You were the only person who could reach me, and maybe that…

— Monica Alexander

The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable.

— Nathan Pritikin

I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't…

— Jon Hamm

When you humiliate someone you're not neither stronger nor more proud or more powerful you are just more miserable!

— Anonymous

“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”

— Seneca

Covid time was not a fun time, I'll say that much. There was probably a week and a half there that was…

— Lindsey Horan

Well, I don't get depressed, but there have certainly been moments in life when I've been really miserable.

— Paul Whitehouse

One of the ultimate ironies of eternity is that the adversary, who is miserable precisely because he has no physical body, invites…

— David A. Bednar

“If you’re miserable in your current situation, chances are it’s because you feel like some part of it is outside your control—that…

— Mark Manson

When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be…

— Kay Arthur

Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on…

— Russell Baker

Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist." "Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not…

— Lee Goldberg

Every night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change…

— Noam Chomsky

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat…

— Christina Stead

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they…

— Terry Bradshaw

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake…

— Samuel Adams

Unless the Holy Ghost blesses the Word, we who preach the gospel are of all men most miserable, for we have attempted…

— Steven J Lawson

I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!…

— Anonymous

Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but…

— Oliver Goldsmith

To a child who dies, and to the parents of this child, will you speak, if religion consoles them, in praise of…

— Andre Comte-Sponville

It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the…

— Andrew Jackson

I think happiness is a choice. I believe luck is your attitude. It sounds like a really annoying bumper sticker. But there…

— Drew Barrymore

Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair,…

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Roselyn Sanchez

I'll rather be alone and happy, then miserable and being mistreated.

— Anonymous

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

— Roger L'Estrange

People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.

— Bill Crawford

I don't necessarily want to be happy; I just want to stop feeling miserable.

— Anonymous

I think it'd be miserable to play in a place like Jacksonville, where nobody cares.

— Jason Kelce

I support gay marriage I belive they hev the right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

— Kinky

If I was doing something for the money, I'd be quite miserable.

— Ricky Williams