Miserable Quotes
1156 quotes by 843 authors
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Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform…
— Frederic Bastiat
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We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags;…
— Paul Tournier
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Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not…
— C.S. Lewis
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If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable.
— Stephen Colbert
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Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
— Emile M. Cioran
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces…
— Mary Oliver
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If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day…
— John Bytheway
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I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position…
— Neil Gaiman
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.
— Cintra Wilson
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
— Mark Twain
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There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and…
— Voltaire
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It’s a miserable story!†said Bruno. “It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief.†“I…
— Lewis Carroll
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Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.
— Daniel Handler
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A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as…
— William Shakespeare
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I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.
— Steven Morrissey
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Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king,…
— Burton Raffel
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