Miserable Quotes

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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a… — Viggo Mortensen
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards. — Janis Joplin
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from… — Linda Hunt
Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.' — Bam Margera
Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything but you don't have to be miserable about it as well. — Lydia Lunch
I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school. — Zosia Mamet
Still, being alone doesn't mean you have to be miserable. In that sense it's different from losing something. You've still got yourself, even if you… — Yoko Ogawa
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable. — Roger L'Estrange
Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel… — Thomas Traherne
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain. — William Wordsworth
Atheists anger doesn't prove that we're selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We're angry because… — Greta Christina
No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How… — Erica Jong
You listen to the mind, you become miserable - otherwise, this today is paradise! And there is no other paradise, this today is nirvana. If… — Rajneesh
Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account. — Thomas Carlyle
Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way… — Boethius
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. — Edward Abbey
Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks… — Edward Abbey
Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as… — Thomas Hutchinson
But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy — Lynn Johnston

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