Miserable Quotes
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According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.
Vince Cable
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Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
Salman Rushdie
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Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.
Rita Mae Brown
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Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?
Zadie Smith
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A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.
Martin Luther
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Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.
Laura Lippman
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I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.
C. S. Forester
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There are only two kinds of men who become dentists. The ones who love it and ones who get miserable. Think round and you'll see I'm right.
Margery Allingham
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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.
Andrew Solomon
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Walter Savage Landor
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The happiest of people is the one under whose care people are happy because of him, and the most miserable of people is the one under whose care people are miserable because of him.
Umar
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
Quentin Crisp
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The orthodox school has witnessed for centuries that nature itself has never once cured any existing disease with another dissimilar one, however intense. What must we think of this school, which nevertheless has continued to treat chronic diseases allopathically, with medicines and formulas that can only cause a disease condition -God knows which -dissimilar to the one being treated? Even if these physicians have not hitherto observed nature attentively enough, the miserable results of their treatment should have taught them that they were on the wrong road.
Samuel Hahnemann
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My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.
Christina Aguilera
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If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
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I think the definition of someone who's still a swinger is a person who remains signed up on swinger websites because they're "humorous." If you'd been married to an alcoholic and found yourself dating someone whose couch cushions were stuffed with empty bottles, you might conclude you're part of the problem and are attracted to men who are going to keep making you miserable in the same oh-so-familiar way. I think you should look to date someone for whom the idea of a swinger website makes him want to slather himself in sanitizing gel.
Emily Yoffe
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The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.
John Tillotson
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The law showeth unto us our sins, and maketh known unto us our miserable estate and wretchedness, and how that there is nothing good in us, and that we are far off from all manner of righteousness, and so driveth us of necessity to seek righteousness in Christ.
Daniel Cawdry -
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
William James
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln
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This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.
Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
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As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious
Henry Rollins Black Flag