Miserable Quotes · Page 24

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

— Theo Paphitis

“Will you treat people who make you miserable, as prison guards, or travel agents?”

— Leslie Miklosy

“If I've learned anything so far, it's that ice cream is the great solution for miserable news.”

— Rachel Saylor

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

— Winona Ryder

“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

“I'd rather be miserable and free than happy and caged.”

— Dia Reeves

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious…

— William Gilbert

I, for one, will join in with anyone -- I don't care what color you are -- as long as you want…

— Malcolm X

None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think…

— Neil Gaiman

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the…

— Bette Davis

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness…

— Marie Corelli

“detested the missionaries who made people “permanently miserable by telling them…how blissful a place heaven is, and [how] nearly impossible it is…

— Michael B. Oren

That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be…

— Rajneesh

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way forward but to dissolve the thoughts…

— Martha Beck

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard…

— Todd Solondz

A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted…

— John Steinbeck

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!…

— Jane Austen

You have no idea how much of the inefficiency of mankind comes from thinking about the wrong-doings of others, and of ourselves.…

— Emma Curtis Hopkins

My act now is completely different. I took two years off when I first got with my wife and it was because…

— Jay Mohr

Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that…

— Seneca the Younger

Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Ethics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that…

— Robert Greene

I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse…

— Leo Tolstoy

“If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.”

— Glen Duncan

I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

— Graham Norton

What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

— Bertolt Brecht

The most miserable man in this room tonight is the Christian who is not right with Him.

— Johnny Hunt

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

— Robert Anthony

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

— George Orwell

May my haters live very long to see my continued success and make their lives miserable.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

I would rather be abnormal and happy then being normal and miserable.

— AmyD

Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.

— Rita Mae Brown

You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey.

— Esther Hicks

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

— Anonymous

Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“So you gotta fight for your right to be ruddy miserable”

— Holly Bourne

You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.

— Frederick Lenz