Miserable Quotes
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Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
Blaise Pascal
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If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.
Vinoba Bhave
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He looked so sorry and miserable as he pushed me out the door. It stung. It always stings when there's this whole story going on and you're really just a B-plot walk-on who only got a look at three pages of the script.
Catherynne M. Valente
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The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
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It is . . . the citizens choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as a Nation. This is the time of their political probation; this is the moment when the eyes of the World are turned upon them.
George Washington
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Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked. "Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of that. I suppose it does. What other pleasure can a creature have whose life consists of making everyone else miserable?
Nancy Farmer
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And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.
William H. McRaven
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Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.
Ernest Hemingway
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I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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What is more miserable than discontent?
William Shakespeare
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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.
Charles Dickens
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For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.
Lord Byron
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Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.
Cintra Wilson
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I hate fishes, they all look so miserable. 3 seconds later they will forget. And then I envy them.
Daul Kim
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I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all of them.
Colin Marston Behold... The Arctopus
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I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!
Harry Connick, Jr.
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Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.
Carolyn Hax
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I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the stuff I choose to share.
Jason Mraz
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We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
Rene Magritte
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
Erica Jong
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This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.
Helen Keller
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I was feeling miserable physically, in a lot of pain to the point where it was almost crippling me, especially creatively. I decided to take that and use it as an inspiration for getting out of bed and making something again.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
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Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better. Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
Watchman Nee