The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“She knows what it is to be sad and miserable, but those emotions are almost enjoyable. They throw moments of happiness and… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet. — Plato Copy Share Image
A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings! — John Foxe Copy Share Image
The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure. — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wouldn’t that be an incredibly stupid thing to do? To say ‘I never want to smoke again’, then spend the rest of… — Allen Carr Copy Share Image
As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What sentence will you choose to impose on yourself? Are you willing to stop suffering and making yourself miserable when your sentence… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory. — Zhang Yimou Copy Share Image
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The difference between a conventional counsellor and an empowerment counsellor is that a conventional therapist will allow you to dwell in your… — Miya Yamanouchi Copy Share Image
It’s a miserable story!” said Bruno. “It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched, miserable and sinful they are. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I don't really diet or anything. I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
We've done a miserable job of preparing people for today's world, let alone tomorrow's. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck… — David Ives Copy Share Image