Quotes About Miserable

For a few moments, the secrets of the universe are opened to us. Life is a cheap parlor trick. That's the miserable truth.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

nevertheless allows him to be considered a poet, with everything that status entails. And it's an enviable status. Because even if you lead a miserable life, it protects you from the disgrace associated with that miserable life, and many, once they've acquired it, sit back and don't write another thing their whole lives.

Lo más terrible de todo es saber en que consiste esta miserable vida y, pese a todo, y con la mayor alevosía, tener hijos. Se necesita mucho cinismo, valor y crueldad para una cosa de ese estilo.

This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

Palabras hermosas realidad prosaica y miserable. Los ciegos serían felices en este país, que para la lengua es paraíso y para los ojos infierno.

En su cerrada mollera no entraban ni podían entrar otras luces sobre el santo ejercicio de la caridad; no comprendía que una palabra cariñosa, un halago, un trato delicado y amante que hicieran olvidar al pequeño su pequeñez, al miserable su miseria, son heroísmos de más precio que el bodrio sobrante de una mala comida.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

I remember watching a very sensible love expert on TV once. The advice: "Don't be discouraged—every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one." That's how I felt about this miserable quest: every person I talked to would let me down until I found the one person who could help me figure out that night. Lyle

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

Is it possible to fall in love over a dish of onions? It seems improbable, and yet I could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions; it was that sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable.

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy and a lot of focus and dedication to do a film, and it's just not worth it if you're going to be miserable for even a day.

I think what's wrong with too many people is they're too reserved. They're miserable, but they don't want to talk about it.

You never stop thinking about technique, but really, the reason we're actors is because of the sheer joy of those few moments you get every now and again where you're totally present. The rest is just struggle and misery.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

A man can be whip smart and witty and caught up in the gale of life, chatting up roomfuls of people and making them laugh till their teeth damn near fall out, and at the same time, he can be the world's loneliest, most miserable creature.

Yes," thought Elizabeth, "a summer with so few balls would be miserable indeed for a girl who thinks of little else.

I moved a pillow aside... preferring the joyful company of the delusional to the miserable company of the sane.

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right.