Miserable Quotes · Page 25

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

— Jane Austen

You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.

— Mason Cooley

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.

— Eddie Redmayne

We know there's no use in getting miserable, so we go out on the town instead!

— Lee Ryan

You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

— Elon Musk

“Love is an utterly bygone, sorry, worn-out, miserable thing with me- for him or anyone else.”

— Thomas Hardy

It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.

— Anonymous

When you think you're over me And your bad baby is dead and gone Remember I'm the ghost in your machine I'm…

— Lana Del Rey

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.

— Anonymous

Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

— Franz Kafka

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

— Jonathan Swift

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

Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.

— Cintra Wilson

I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go…

— Yitzhak Shamir

We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look…

— James Madison

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as…

— John Calvin

The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that…

— Simone Weil

In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are…

— Julian Young

I was feeling miserable physically, in a lot of pain to the point where it was almost crippling me, especially creatively. I…

— Frank Iero

Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every…

— Swami Vivekananda

Don't create a plastic image of what it is to be spiritual and try to become it. You won't be capable of…

— Frederick Lenz

My mom always told me if I love what I'm doing and I'm having fun then just continue to do it. But…

— Selena Gomez

“Depression is an imagery of our heart's sickness.”

— Rizky Adam Rifai

I truly feel bad for people that go through life being miserable about the smallest things.

— Anonymous

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

— John Milton

“Every job too miserable most times, is nothing compared to just waiting.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Hey, look, I thought with a miserable laugh, this day just got worse.”

— Diana Rowland

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

— Thomas Traherne

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.

— Stefan Molyneux

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

— Djuna Barnes

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

— Evangeline Lilly

I did a diet once and it was awful and made me miserable - I would never do it again.

— Rochelle Humes

Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.

— Charles L. Allen

try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.

— Marilyn Monroe

I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.

— Rosemary Mahoney

“The truth shall make you free, but first it will make you miserable.”

— Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

I had a mink, and I had money and I was miserable.

— Kay Arthur