It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
It's a lot easier to like people when they can't make life miserable for you anymore. — Carol Kendall Copy Share Image
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I worked in cable news for a long time, but I'm not a pundit. I'm just not. I'm grateful to people that… — Meghan McCain Copy Share Image
When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The last thing the theatre owners wanted was for people who spent $200 to see 'Les Miserables' to come out again and… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“I could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable.” — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Every time you feel miserable, there is present an excellent opportunity to make a big step forward. — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
I hid my weight pretty well but I wasn't fine, I was super unhappy, miserable and I was working out like an… — Shanna Moakler Copy Share Image
Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A game director, in my mind, is somebody who makes everybody on the team miserable for the duration of the project. — Cory Barlog Copy Share Image
“Compassion speaks with a slight accent. She was a vulnerable child, miserable in school, cold, shy … In ninth grade she was… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Often people write stories about people who are suffering, and they're miserable all the time. That's not the case. You go to… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“I've watched two-year-old humans with interest for centuries. They're miserable. They rush about, fall down, and scream almost constantly. They hate being… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
You okay?" Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“Work for the sole purpose of making a living is a miserable prison, which is why very few people will confess that… — Hu Anyan Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best set experiences make for the worst films. So, you don't want it to be too good an experience! But… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age.… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
There is nobody better at deconstructing liberals than me. If there is, I haven't met 'em. This is not a brag. It's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life. — Mia Maestro Copy Share Image
I'm actually a miserable, authoritarian guy at home... no really, I'm strict. — Sean Lock Copy Share Image
But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make. — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
It's miserable wearing black all the time, unless you're Johnny Cash. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image