Miserable Quotes
1156 quotes by 843 authors
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It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
— James Boswell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
— Mikhail Lermontov
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It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.
— Thom Yorke
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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
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Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
— Ann Patchett
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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
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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
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It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.
— Harvey Mackay
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An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
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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
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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
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The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.
— Paulo Coelho
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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
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Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.
— W.C. Fields
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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
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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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