Miserable Quotes
1156 quotes by 843 authors
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If…
— Rita Mae Brown
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About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and…
— Stephen King
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She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save her the impression…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to…
— Lev Grossman
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Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.
— Michael Moorcock
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Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous,…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a…
— Scott Westerfeld
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All right. Are you going to come back? Do you want any soup?" "No," said Jace. "Do you think Hodge will want any soup?" "No…
— Cassandra Clare
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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
— Evelyn Waugh
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Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,†Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. “I thought it was…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair.…
— H.G. Wells
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Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn’t feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad.
— Jenna Black
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It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable…
— Stephen Fry
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Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty...all of it. I would…
— Stephenie Meyer
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That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past…
— Rajneesh
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My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
— Alexandre Dumas
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Whatever you do, protect those you care for. Without them, life is more miserable than you can imagine.
— Christopher Paolini
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To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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