Being miserable Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“Don’t let the bad times get you down, You have some of those moments where life tells you, it’s time to cry. Without those,…

— Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side

“There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.”

— Mark Strand

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

— Len Jenkin

“There are only two kinds of people in this world who want to be miserable: poets and method actors.”

— Steve Kaplan

“In time, we found a common interest in poetry. He reads nothing else. Day in, day out. Never happier he is than when reading…

— Jane Austen

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

— Billy Collins

“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

— Arti Honrao

“Reading does not occupy me enough: the only relief I find springs from the composition of poetry, which necessitates contemplations that lift me above…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice…

— Mary Karr

“And then he felt the misery of his life.”

— William Somerset Maugham

“In a good-natured way he had almost decided that Princeton was one part deadly Philistines and one part deadly grinds, and to find a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”

— Aldous Huxley