Miserable Quotes · Page 9

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

— Donald Ray Pollock

Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable.

— Mooji

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

— Jane Austen

I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.

— Susane Colasanti

But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

— John Milton

Being single..is better than being miserable in love...

— Olga Ondush

People aren't going to vote for miserable gits in the corner saying how awful everything is.

— Wes Streeting

I don't like black. You wear black when you're miserable.

— Loulou de la Falaise

“Of all the miserable ways to spend a miserable Saturday morning in the miserable month of January, this had to be the…

— Chris Raschka

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance,…

— Michel de Montaigne

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

— Douglas Adams

Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they…

— Zadie Smith

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you…

— Shirley MacLaine

What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing,…

— Tom Hollander

I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in,…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

A lot of people realize "I don't have to work in this job that I'm miserable at every year, or every day,…

— Tony Hsieh

You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and…

— Anonymous

Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent…

— Edward Abbey

I get sick of that old rationalization, "We're staying together because of the children." Kids couldn't be more miserable living with parents…

— Johnny Carson

One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

God certainly knows of some happiness for us which He is going to bring out of the trouble, only we must have…

— Johanna Spyri

I think people who make checklists are the most miserable and alone because they are looking for the perfect Entenmann's that is…

— Paul Rudnick

I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness,…

— Sophia Tolstaya

We have a choice. We can live in the past and be miserable and unhappy, or we can pick ourselves up and…

— John Templeton

When you read my texts, you saw a curt, miserable git. And you told me so. Maybe you're right. But you know…

— Sophie Kinsella

How could you have guessed?” Miserable though Will was, he felt free, as if a heavy burden had been displaced from him.…

— Cassandra Clare

You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution A time where there's got to be a change. People in…

— Malcolm X

It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

We can use wealth, intelligence, education or health in harmony with our compassionate spiritual nature, or we can use them according to…

— Radhanath Swami

Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his…

— Khalil Gibran

The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father…

— Anonymous

The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope

— William Shakespeare

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

“Don't mind being as miserable as you like with me - I have a great turn that way myself - [VW]”

— Vita Sackville-West

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

— Victor Hugo

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

— Chris Rock

When I'm acting well, it's the most exhilarating experience. When I'm bad, it's miserable.

— Winona Ryder

I'd rather be rich and miserable than poor and miserable.

— Theo Paphitis