Miserable Quotes

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Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I can't cheer up â€” I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable! — Lucy Maud Montgomery
That's the worstâ€¦or the bestâ€¦of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortableâ€¦and succeedingâ€¦even when you're… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Problem is, you canâ€™t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. Youâ€™re like a dog at the dump, baby â€“ youâ€™re just… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on. — Haruki Murakami
How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate? — Beatrice Sparks
He sounded absolutely miserable. â€œAre you ever going to speak to me? — Maggie Stiefvater
Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that… — Lauren Oliver
I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be â€” that proves I… — Emily Bronte
They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We… — N.K. Jemisin
We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We… — Charles Dickens
Oh, darling, I've been so miserable. — Ernest Hemingway
But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running… — Christopher McDougall
For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieveâ€”like the soulâ€™s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy… — Laini Taylor
It isnâ€™t what you have or who you are or where you are or what youâ€™re doing that makes you happy or unhappy. Itâ€™s what… — Dale Carnegie
Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?! — John Bytheway
Itâ€™s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to… — Michael J. Fox
If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable. — Brandon Sanderson
I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable. — Lisa Kleypas

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