Miserable Quotes

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Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence. — Ellen G. White
There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it.… — J. B. Priestley
As long as you don't compliment yourself, your environments and your job, you will always be miserable. Complaints bring misery, compliments brings strength. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. — Rene Magritte
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. — Mignon McLaughlin
That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided. — Rajneesh
I realized that very young - that a life where you don't live to your full potential, or you don't experiment, or you're afraid, or… — Angelina Jolie
There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an… — Bill McKibben
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and… — Thomas Jefferson
When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give… — Anton Chekhov
I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't… — Truman Capote
When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you… — Emile M. Cioran
A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of… — C.S. Lewis
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for. — Charles L. Allen
If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what… — Charles Kingsley
If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people… — Charles Kingsley
Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again... Closed in the darkness, it was necessary to bring… — Gregory of Nyssa
I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well. — Grace Hartigan
Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely… — Immanuel Kant

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