Miserable Quotes

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If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be… — Emily Bronte
You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal… — Jerry Seinfeld
In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time.… — Abraham Lincoln
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that… — Victor Hugo
Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been… — C.S. Lewis
Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are… — Doris Lessing
Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You… — Zadie Smith
On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable,… — Sharon Creech
We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we… — Wilhelm Reich
I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people… — Ernest Hemingway
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets. — Andre Malraux
One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it. — Irving Stone
But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurvivable… — Kim Harrison
She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . .… — Marilynne Robinson
I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn. — Anne Rice
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is… — Khalil Gibran

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