Miserable Quotes

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Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected. — Federico Fellini
I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and… — Leo Tolstoy
A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a… — John Steinbeck
The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209)â€¦â€¦The more… — Marvin Gaye
I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it. — Irvin D. Yalom
I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there… — John Green
He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain. — Elizabeth Gaskell
Iâ€™m not a romantic, Iâ€™m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think Iâ€™m smart. Iâ€™m not something anyone should know. Iâ€™m a lunatic wandering around… — Daniel Handler
Youâ€™re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something… — Ilona Andrews
Jack! "Where have you been,you miserable little creep?" He raised his eyebrows,a look of mock hurt on his face."This is the thanks I get?" "Give… — Kiersten White
God certainly knows of some happiness for us which He is going to bring out of the trouble, only we must have patience and not… — Johanna Spyri
-Please, Anita, go home, and donâ€™t freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone around you be happy. Is that so… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Buttercup, miserable even with Primâ€™s constant attention, huddles in the cube and exhales cat breath in my face. — Suzanne Collins
For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted… — Anthony Bourdain
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion. — Wendy Cope
Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets… — Terry Pratchett
We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees… — Leo Tolstoy
I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you. — Sonya Hartnett
We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work… — Fernando Pessoa

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