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Quotes About Miserable

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.
~ Sienna Miller
What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.
~ Joseph de Maistre
That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.
~ Rajneesh
I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.
~ Viola Davis
La vedo chiaramente la mia miserabile mansione... ubbidire da ribelle; e peggio ancora, odiare con un'ombra di pietà
~ Melville Herman
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
~ Bernard Shaw
When you hear people in church, debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings.
~ Bertrand Russell
what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?
~ Bertrand Russell
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
~ Maxim Gorky
Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
I asked what he was laughing at. "I was just wondering if it was possible to get any more miserable." He chuckled darkly. "I suppose if a river snake crawled up my ass and gave birth to quintuplets…
~ Steven Pressfield
my central motive consists of a fierce belief that something must be done to rectify the miserable inadequacies of current medical responses to ovarian cancer.
~ Susan Gubar
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.
~ Joshua Wolf Shenk
Modern women had their own self-made guilt to make them miserable, but the sixteenth-century people had diseases, their fear of the unknown, their ignorance of medicine, and constant and ever-present death to haunt them.
~ Jude Deveraux
I was miserable. I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child too. I hadn't known that before. I thought I was just short.
~ Florence King
Le jeu misérable des passions est si simple qu'un adolescent le possède à sa première intrigue : Raymond n'avait eu besoin d'aucun conseil pour se résoudre « à la laisser cuire dans son jus ».
~ Francois Mauriac
I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.
~ Bob Barker
I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least. I have also found that few things, if any, are capable of making one so blind and narrow as race prejudice.
~ Booker T. Washington
Catholic education and law schools provide me with a lot of miserable people as psychotherapy clients. I should be grateful. These people are looking for rescue from their education.
~ Brad Blanton
Glaubst du, dass du es schaffst, in deinem miserablen Zustand?« »Ich muss es ja wohl schaffen, oder nicht?«, entgegnete Blood. Er war wirklich sauer. »Ich meine, nachdem du dir die Seele aus dem Leib koitierst hast, bist du wahrscheinlich ziemlich schlapp, oder?«
~ Harlan Ellison
I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.
~ Mike Love
If my son had a baseless accusation made against him at a university, and it was making his life there miserable, I would suggest he transfer or take courses online.
~ Jared Polis
Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.
~ Marina Abramovic
I don't think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.
~ Marina Abramovic