Miserable Quotes · Page 9

You can use the [Barack] Obama administration as a recent example. For seven years they've been unopposed. The Republican Party's not trying…

— Rush Limbaugh

Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time…

— Rajneesh

A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

— Rajneesh

The club is always bigger than the individual, and employers can make a player's life miserable if they want.

— Robbie Savage

I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white…

— Jonas Mekas

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy…

— Billy Sunday

For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War…

— Norman Mailer

As luck would have (it was) in God's hands. It was me...The billionaire (part) was a stretch but I thought the almighty…

— Drew Waters

In giving respect we can be very happy, because we can do it in all situations. When we expect respect we are…

— Radhanath Swami

Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in…

— Owen Feltham

I'm actually a miserable, authoritarian guy at home... no really, I'm strict.

— Sean Lock

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

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.

— Peter Singer

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

— Max Hastings

But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and…

— Ann Brashares

Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the…

— Bill Gates

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when…

— James Hillman

(...) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, that's what he was…

— John Fante

This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

— Henry Ward Beecher

She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real…

— Marcus Garvey

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

— John Milton

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

— Irvin D. Yalom

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of…

— Marquis de Sade