Miserable Quotes

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The universe defies you to answer the following questions: What good is a high paying career if it leaves you continually stressed out and miserable?… — Ernie J Zelinski
If it turns out that physical death truly results in the absolute cessation of consciousness, then it would seem to me that in the grand… — Derek R. Audette
All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live… — Frederick Lenz
I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's… — Charlize Theron
You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable. — Diablo Cody
The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort. — Seneca the Younger
Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times;… — Thomas de Quincey
What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair. — Moliere
A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness… — Eric Hoffer
Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part… — Joseph Addison
The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not… — George Orwell
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women. — Samuel Johnson
But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave. — John Milton
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all. — Christopher Marlowe
For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!... A man of mediocre talents… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is… — Robertson Davies
Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate. — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

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