Miserable Quotes

• What meditation does is allow you to actually survive these emotions as opposed to compartmentalizing and having them come up and make you a shithead in other areas of your life. The alternative is to be miserable, and I don't think we're living in a wise way when we do that.

  

  Dan Harris
  • Emotions
  • Meditation
  • Alternative

• To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.

  

  David Dudley Field II
  • Conditions
  • Coward
  • Cowardice

• I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

  

  Evelyn Waugh
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Precious

• Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Order
  • Exist
  • Miserable

• Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Starts

• I want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible genes. I want to hear from the geek girl, the forgotten girl, the invisible girl and the miserable girl.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Girl
  • Forgotten
  • Incredibles

• I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Movie
  • Proud
  • Miserable

• The disappointment has come - not because God desires to hurt you or make you miserable or to demoralize you or ruin your life or keep you from ever knowing happiness. He wants you to be perfect and complete in every aspect, lacking nothing. It's not the easy times that make you more like Jesus, but the hard times.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Perfect
  • Desire
  • Jesus

• If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

  

  Mia Maestro
  • Miserable
  • Strict

• If I wasn't in the entertainment industry at all, I would be a miserable human being serving pancakes at Denny's. I'm also a singer, so maybe I'd be singing at dark jazz clubs in Brooklyn.

  

  Miranda Rae Mayo
  • Entertainment
  • Serving
  • Brooklyn

• Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth.

  

  Russell Baker
  • People
  • Earth
  • Food

• It was better to be alone miserable. It was better to drown.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Miserable
  • Drown

• I was fifteen. I was bored. I was miserable.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Bored
  • Miserable

• Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Harm
  • Wagons
  • Irreparable

• The people that tell you what you enjoy is wrong, or come in your life and tell you what you're wearing is wrong are miserable because they focus on the things that they don't like.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • People
  • Focus
  • Enjoy

• Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident of life.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Accidents

• Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Ugly

• Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Names
  • Miserable
  • Subjects

• We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Together

• The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'

  

  Michael Winter
  • Being
  • Greatness
  • Ridiculous

• Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.

  

  Walter Mischel
  • Emotion
  • Miserable
  • Melancholy

• It's a lot easier to like people when they can't make life miserable for you anymore.

  

  Carol Kendall
  • Easier
  • Miserable

• En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Knows
  • Word
  • Condition

• But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

  

  Jane Austen
  • Happy
  • Miserable

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