When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing… — Linda Hunt Copy Share Image
The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“It is you, it is you. It is you that I love and yet I am miserable and so I smoke. I… — Pamela August Russell Copy Share Image
I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am. — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable!… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
“huddled together at the left end of the bar, as silent and miserable as kittens in a sack with the bridge getting… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive? My hunch is yes.… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
It is necessary but insufficient to stay married for the children's sake. It is also necessary to stay happily married for the… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot -… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
I was on a very bumpy plane ride, an overnight flight. I was so miserable, and I pulled out 'David Copperfield,' and… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a newcomer, I was often expected to carry the bags of the older players, or get them burgers. That can make… — Dirk Nowitzki Copy Share Image
Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I have a series of splintered relationships. Why should I get married again? It's a miserable compromise at best. But I believe… — Brooke Hayward Copy Share Image
“The only person who can make you miserable is yourself, if you hold back because you’re too afraid of failure to take… — Shana Norris Copy Share Image
Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I really write about situations that I have trouble, you know I mean, so I guess .. that's why I feel so… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances. — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections. — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
“And she knew Life well enough to know that if one person in a house gets really miserable for any length of… — Jenny Wingfield Copy Share Image
There never yet was, and never will be, a nation permanently great, consisting, for the greater part, of wretched and miserable families. — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“He felt old and miserable, going through life trying to peddle a personality of which people would not even accept a free… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you. — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable. [Fr., La plupart des hommes emploient la premiere… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“If you only take joy in the the big rewards, than you must spend the majority of your life miserable.” — Christina Estabrook Copy Share Image
“Life is a mixed bag, and if we focus only on the bad parts, then it should come as no surprise to… — Saksit Sathanapong Copy Share Image
A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I've started confiding in people, other artists mostly, that I hate making 'South Park,' and I always have. It's super stressful. I'm… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act… — David Chase Copy Share Image