I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life. — Chris Isaak 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
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.' — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I… — Alan Titchmarsh 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
I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or… — Lara Flynn Boyle Copy Share Image
My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck. — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable... — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
I would like to do a big movie that many, many people see but I just know I would be miserable if… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Be radical! The reason you feel so miserable is because you put spirituality in a form. You boxed it, franchised it. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks;… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
“Nature provided human beings with all the gemstones needed to attain happiness – physical abilities, intellectual and cognitive capacity, and emotional indexes,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
If you want to live a miserable life, making your life all about other people is the way to do it. — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
The main thing I like about New Yorkers is that they understand that their lives are a relentless circus of horrors, ending… — Kyle Baker Copy Share Image
