Miserable Quotes

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Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what.… — Andy Warhol
One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond… — Niccolo Machiavelli
...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it… — Diana Gabaldon
Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the… — Sarah Addison Allen
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least. — Booker T. Washington
The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in… — Victor Hugo
I suppose it goes without saying that negative speaking so often flows from negative thinking about ourselves. We see our own faults, we speak--or at… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Weâ€™re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Another step had her backed up against the wall, and he braced his arms on both sides of her. "I'm beginning to look forward to… — Johanna Lindsey
It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man. — Michel de Montaigne
If you want to learn anything, learn trust - nothing else id needed. If you are miserable, nothing else will help - learn trust. If… — Rajneesh
She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond the… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this… — Julie Garwood
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant. — C S Forester
To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering. — John Milton
To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night,… — L. Frank Baum
When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only with the Divine,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the… — Zadie Smith

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