Miserable Quotes
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Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.
Walter Mischel
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I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.
Bill Burr
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When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.
Amy Lee
Evanescence
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The only person in all the world who can give you pleasure, or deny it, is yourself. No matter how much we love someone, the decision to experience pleasure, and to make room for it in our lives, is an internal one. If you are resistant, you could be around the most joyous people in the world and be miserable.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!
William Shakespeare
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Why do I make myself miserable over things that years from now no one will even care about? If I knew that, maybe I could be happy.
Allan Stratton
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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
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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
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Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.
Saul Bellow
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
