Miserable Quotes

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It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy. — James Boswell
I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the… — Viktor E. Frankl
If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death… — Immanuel Kant
It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at… — Jean de La Fontaine
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a… — Hubert H. Humphrey
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason. — Mikhail Lermontov
It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler. — Thom Yorke
Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already… — Saul Bellow
Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world. — Ann Patchett
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful. — Ingmar Bergman
You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the… — Jack Gantos
It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't. — Harvey Mackay
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. — Henry Home, Lord Kames
A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is… — Christina Stead
If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject… — Sheila Walsh
The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you. — Paulo Coelho
The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles… — David Foster Wallace
Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with. — W.C. Fields
Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things that we carry with us, they're the things… — William Shatner
What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell… — Steve Buscemi

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