Miserable Quotes

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No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life. — David Starr Jordan
People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable. — Joseph Butler
It's a lot easier to like people when they can't make life miserable for you anymore. — Carol Kendall
A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked.... For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found sad. One day… — Rajneesh
All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned, and there are… — Rajneesh
If you are happy, you are happy; nobody asks you why you are happy. Yes, if you are miserable, a question is relevant. If you… — Rajneesh
When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become extraordinary. Nothing is… — Rajneesh
Misery makes you special. Misery makes you more egoistic. A miserable man can have a more concentrated ego than a happy man. A happy man… — Rajneesh
I am not against money - remember. Don't misinterpret me: I am not against money. I am not against anything. Money is a means. If… — Rajneesh
Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness is sin, only… — Rajneesh
Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes… — Jared Diamond
Don't criticize something you know nothing about. It only brings people down and makes everyone miserable. — Laura Hall
When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make… — Kay Arthur
I had a mink, and I had money and I was miserable. — Kay Arthur
Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable. — Jean de la Bruyere
His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should… — Diophantus
Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego. — Rajneesh
The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not only study, it… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no… — T.H. White
I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne. — Moon Unit Zappa

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