What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I am not one of those fat birds who feels miserable because models are thin. Frankly, I feel more insulted by the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was lucky. I missed the struggle. I don't feel I have to pay anyone back for the miserable years. I never… — Ted Cassidy Copy Share Image
I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Well, I don't get depressed, but there have certainly been moments in life when I've been really miserable. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that… — Lauren Groff 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
Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked. "Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was "the man", the envy of every other… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in… — William James Copy Share Image
Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
