Miserable Quotes · Page 48

Polygamy was not a problem in the '80s. I do not remember one single woman in Baghdad who was the second or…

— Yanar Mohammed

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

— Federico Fellini

[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's…

— Queen Elizabeth II

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to…

— Cyril Connolly

Every time you feel miserable, there is present an excellent opportunity to make a big step forward.

— Lester Levenson

“Work for the sole purpose of making a living is a miserable prison, which is why very few people will confess that…

— Hu Anyan

I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your…

— Dan Marino

What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Gothenburg's definitely a music city as well, but I think just because of the weather - it's so cold and miserable -…

— Yukimi Nagano

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

— John Calvin

Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more…

— Paul Lafargue

These nutbags, like Santorum and Bachmann, who make these people and especially young gay kids feel miserable, shame on them. They're quacks.…

— Howard Stern

To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I cannot bear successful people who are miserable.

— Elton John

If I am in a beautiful place, but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

— Alber Elbaz

Although money alone won't make us happy, the lack of money surely will make us miserable.

— Suze Orman

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

— Michel de Montaigne

You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates.

— Frederick Lenz

The workaholics have done immense harm to the world. And the greatest harm they have done is that they have deprived life…

— Rajneesh

Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love -…

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Djuna Barnes

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And…

— Leo Tolstoy

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours…

— Arthur Smith

When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.

— Helen Mirren

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

— Angelo Patri