Miserable Quotes
1156 quotes by 843 authors
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I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
— Djuna Barnes
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...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't have the slightest…
— Katherine Paterson
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You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False…
— Paulo Coelho
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The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
— William Shakespeare
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And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain…
— Douglas Adams
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Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.
— Orson Scott Card
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Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke." Les Miserables
— Victor Hugo
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Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
— Blaise Pascal
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Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans,…
— Jack Kerouac
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There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.
— Graham Greene
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And exactly how does a miserable face help the war effort?" he asked sharply, his mood beginning to change. "Will a frown bring back the…
— Stuart Hill
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I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to…
— Wendell Berry
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In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies…
— Jeanette Winterson
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You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never been so high.
— Dan Savage
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Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity,…
— Neil Gaiman
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What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I…
— Nick Hornby
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When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they…
— Orson Scott Card
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What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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