Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
When you are miserable, you need something that is even more miserable than you to feel good about yourself — Elfen Lied Copy Share Image
A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how… — Steve Backley Copy Share Image
Making weight - 60kg - that was the big thing. I was just miserable all the time. I was feeling hungry, I… — Josh Taylor Copy Share Image
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides.… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically,… — Gertrude Lawrence Copy Share Image
“And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Only one thing I expect from all of you: to be yourself, to discover your inner beauty, your purity of consciousness, your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment in a welter of shudders and salted,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Baseball was my refuge. When I came on the field, I did my job, and did the best I could and focused… — Joey Votto Copy Share Image
I hate seeing people miserable that's why I try to be kind, because I know exactly what it feels like — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I moved a pillow aside... preferring the joyful company of the delusional to the miserable company of the sane.” — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
Don’t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward.… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Stop making someone very happy if someday you'll just leave that person shivering and making that person's life miserable. — Vince Copy Share Image
If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Tell me please, who the fuck did you want me to be, and please I'm still wearing this miserable skin, and it's… — Brian Wright Copy Share Image
What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think people fall in love with being miserable. Why? Because it's the easy way out. Otherwise they know they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I think, do you know what, I'm going to be honest and say, the times I actually pick myself apart and feel… — Perrie Edwards Copy Share Image
Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
