Miserable Quotes

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Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach… — Khalil Gibran
They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers. Therefore there… — Franz Kafka
And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable. — Alyson Noel
At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child â€” miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a… — P.J. O'Rourke
There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about it. I'm not… — Ayn Rand
You canâ€™t, if you canâ€™t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable… — Joseph Heller
At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them,… — Desiderius Erasmus
I believe I am becoming pathetic. I'll go further, I believe that I am in love with a flower-growing, wood-carving quarryman/carpenter/pig farmer. In fact, I… — Mary Ann Shaffer
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day… — George Bernard Shaw
Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to… — Daniel Handler
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical… — Virginia Woolf
Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet… — Edgar Allan Poe
Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality... through… — Terry Goodkind
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because… — George Bernard Shaw
I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune.… — Louisa May Alcott
Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier. — John Boyne
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is… — Frank McCourt
None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it. — Neil Gaiman

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