Miserable Quotes · Page 36

“Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and…

— Dale Carnegie

Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic…

— Robert O. Paxton

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

— Jo Brand

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

— Thomas Mann

People are living such miserable lives economically. They want the escape. They want the fantasy. They'd love the dream of being king…

— Robin Leach

When someone is trying to make you miserable...think of God and all the great things He's done for you and will continue…

— Pauline Seaport

Well, you know, it's been in the back of my mind. I just cannot get it out of it. I'm miserable chasing…

— Drew Waters

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

— Tacitus

'Courtney' is a more punk-rock kids' book. It has this precious veneer that Courtney's terrible behavior trashes. And it's basically about how…

— Ted Naifeh

I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most…

— Marquis de Custine

I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining…

— Sarah Silverman

When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one…

— John Newton

What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members…

— Arianna Huffington

I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to…

— Ayelet Waldman

The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to…

— Oliver Burkeman

The first round I had Jordy and Jihad in my heat, and I was out there looking in, and, even though France…

— Andy Irons

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. ”

— Adam Smith

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

— Brett Hull

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of…

— Theodore Parker

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it…

— George Bernard Shaw

At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that…

— Anonymous

“The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they…

— Steve Maraboli

France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because…

— Mark Twain

Yeah,somehow you made me laugh and really make my day everytime I hear your voice or see you on cam but now…

— Debbie

I am the kind of person who does want very badly to be liked. I'm a right-miserable little show off.

— Leo Sayer

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be…

— Bob Barker

If you're miserable and someone flies by looking like they have everything in the whole world and it's never going to be…

— Brian Michael Bendis

[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They…

— Joyce Meyer

Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.

— Walter Mischel

Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister…

— Francis Atterbury

I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time…

— Colin Marston

I want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible genes. I want to hear from…

— Shirley Manson

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is…

— Simon Cowell

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship…

— George Eliot

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its…

— Nicolas Chamfort

“Isabella frowned and banged the keys harder than necessary. “And if I don’t want the duke’s attentions?” “You’re already miserable, so what…

— Kristi Ann Hunter

Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'

— Bam Margera

It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or…

— Aubrey de Grey

Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want…

— Glenn Kelman

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

— Mary Wortley Montagu