Miserable Quotes

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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. — Adam Smith
Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind. — Arthur Smith
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate… — Todd Solondz
Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see… — Lysander Spooner
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. — Charles Spurgeon
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. — Jonathan Swift
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable. — Tacitus
When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who starched and ironed… — Tina Turner
I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable… — Shania Twain
The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune. — Steve Vai
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you… — Swami Vivekananda
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. — Voltaire
I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible,… — Robert Winston
There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and… — John Wooden
I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases,… — Woody Allen
Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device… — Ambrose Bierce
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life. — Franz Kafka
A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own,… — P.G. Wodehouse
We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try… — Thomas Huxley
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I… — Jane Austen

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