Miserable Quotes

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You okay?" Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank… — Holly Black
Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable. — Stevie Smith
At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so chill and desolate… — David James Duncan
I keep my expectations low, so nobody disappoints me." "Yeah, well, I have high expectations." I look toward Miranda. "I guess my friends do, too."… — Simone Elkeles
Dad: Honey, have you seen my glasses? I can"t find them. Mom: I haven't seen them. Calvin: (with glasses, to Dad) Calvin, go do something… — Bill Watterson
Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as… — Terry Pratchett
She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry. — Jane Austen
For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, thereâ€™s no reason to add to everyoneâ€™s misery by looking miserable yourself. — Elizabeth Gilbert
This, she thought, isnâ€™t just for today. Itâ€™s for everything. For the heartache that still felt like a punch in the gut each time it… — Laini Taylor
[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much… — Joyce Meyer
â€¦my Lolita remarked: â€œYou know, whatâ€™s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your ownâ€; and it struck me, as my automaton… — Vladimir Nabokov
As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I… — Emile M. Cioran
She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable. — Louisa May Alcott
People talk of â€œsocial outcasts.â€ The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have… — Osamu Dazai
Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist." "Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad." "That's unconsciousness.… — Lee Goldberg
Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable — Rene Descartes
Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the… — John Green
But to appear happy when I am so miserable â€” Oh! who can require it? — Jane Austen

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