Miserable people Quote by Rachel Cohn

“Just keep telling me I can't do it. I thrive on being obstinate.”

— Lori Lesko

“The most baffling about the human psyche is that even after seeing the misery and suffering all around. He is convinced that these would…

— Gian Kumar

“He was one of those susceptible, highly-strung persons who cannot bear to have made a blunder which, though they do not admit it to…

— Marcel Proust

“He always had to act in an obnoxiously idiosyncratic way.”

— Heather O'Neill

“what was astonishing to him was how people seemed to run out of their own being, run out of whatever the stuff was that…

— Philip Roth

“In his opinion, humans were best when miserable, and so he had worked at being miserable his whole life, and in his generous way…

— Rodman Philbrick

“He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.”

— Charles Dickens

“But such was the way with people – they loved the things that made them miserable.”

— Nathan Hill

“It never once occurs to him, though, that the reason he's so unhappy is that he's an asshole.”

— David Foster Wallace

“He was going to hurt the people he hated, but inside he didn't feel any real sense of satisfaction. He hated them all the…

— Riccardo Bruni

“Actually he was a pessimist, and, like all pessimists, a ridiculously unobservant man.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal.”

— Molière