Miserable Quotes

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I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes. — Tom Stoppard
Basic SEAL training is six months of long, torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses,… — William H. McRaven
All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to… — Peter Singer
There are so many miserable people out there who have not fulfilled their dreams. I believe you should do something that you love. — John Tesh
If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day. — Jake Roberts
Maybe that is why kids like Dumbledore: because he is funny rather than a miserable old sod with a long white beard. — Michael Gambon
Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an… — Dale T. Mortensen
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. — Nicolas Chamfort
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive… — Agatha Christie
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. — George Bernard Shaw
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable… — John Stuart Mill
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. — Carlos Castaneda
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so. — Boethius
The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how… — James Laughlin
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial… — Patrick White
Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class… — Albert Bushnell Hart
Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings! — John Foxe
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. — James Tobin
The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable… — John Grierson

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