Miserable Quotes

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Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
When a difficult situation comes into your life, it is possible to tune in to your mind and say, ?Okay, choose.? Are you going to… — Susan Jeffers
The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented. — St. Jerome
Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable. — Jean de la Bruyere
She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do… — Marcus Garvey
A happy but miserable state in which man finds himself from time to time; sometimes he believes he is happy by loving, then suddenly he… — Marcus Garvey
We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable. — Jewel
It's a mistake to expect benefits from any pose. Expectations make you restless because if you fail to get what you expect, you feel miserable.… — Dharma Mittra
Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse… — Frederick Lenz
You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical. — Frederick Lenz
You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates. — Frederick Lenz
When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and the ego dissolves. — Frederick Lenz
After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the country people, whose… — Pope Paul VI
Don't create a plastic image of what it is to be spiritual and try to become it. You won't be capable of it and that… — Frederick Lenz
When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable... — Rajneesh
Gothenburg's definitely a music city as well, but I think just because of the weather - it's so cold and miserable - people stay in.… — Yukimi Nagano
Believe things will work out. How was I ever to know that the girl who broke my heart in university would lead to my soulmate?… — Steve Jobs
The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable. — Jean de la Bruyere
The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements… — James Anthony Froude

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