Quotes About Miserable

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

The little boy in him was crestfallen that he wasn't going on the adventure. Then he reminded himself that he was already part of the biggest adventure ever, and that, so far, it had been altogether miserable.

It is miserably clear that the video has been shot by a third conspirator who is burdened with a consumer-grade camcorder and reeling from some kind of inner-ear disease that he or she would like to share with others.

Well, thank you for making it so clear why I should be miserable," Randy says forbearingly.

Frederick the Great was accustomed to say: "The older     one gets the more convinced one becomes that his Majesty     King Chance does three-quarters of the business of this     miserable universe." Sorel

These hippie writers are selfish and irresponsible. I'll tell you what made our nation the bastion of patrician morality it is today: the ability to be profoundly miserable. It's one of our greatest strengths, to be ranked beside shutting the boozers at ten-thirty and regarding the waterproof mackintosh as an acceptable item of clothing.

BARABAS: Why, I esteem the injury far less, To take the lives of miserable men Than be the causers of their misery.

so here, in not too many pages, someone is going to dispatch the miserable son of a bitch with a shovel. That's the spirit of Christmas yet to come in these parts. Ho, ho, ho.

Virginia sent the possibly rather unusual message 'She is an angel' and signed it by the nickname we always gave her – 'Goat'. This arrived 'She is an aged Goat' and soon after George returned crestfallen and miserable and retired to bed, suffering it was said from shock.

Sofya now understood the difference between life and existence: her life had come to an end, but her existence could drag on indefinitely. And however wretched and miserable this existence was, the thought of violent death still filled her with horror.

He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being. -Jean Valjean about Cossette-

They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming degraded are rare; besides, there is a point where the unfortunate and the infamous unite and are confounded in a single word, a fatal word, the miserable; whose fault is this? And then should not the charity be all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great?

He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being. He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being. -Jean Valjean about Cossette-

Somos todos miseráveis e devastados, mas poucos homens são capazes de encarar o próprio abismo.

loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul's version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

Bethlem became a byword for thieving, degeneracy and institutionalised corruption. One of the most notorious employees was Peter the Porter, who left his miserable charges to starve and shiver while he traded in their food and bedding.

Dreamers don't make good workers. So you teach them that no matter how miserable, what they've got is the best, and the Other is terror and lies. Well, to be bold, fuck that.

I cannot think without a shudder of contracting any obligation towards death. I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it.

I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it. If we prefer honour to life, it is because life is blighted by infamy; and if, in the alternative, man sometimes throws away his life, philosophy must remain silent. Oh,

Tanta gente se las ingeniaba para ignorar la miseria, aceptando las desigualdades como ley de vida. Y así habían sido las cosas desde siempre, pensaba. ¿Quién se atrevía a soñar en cambiar todo aquello?

En horas de profunda impiedad, planeamos la aniquilación del género humano, lo más miserable que hemos urdido se acomoda a su devoción.

What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle (On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR)

Tis a lonely business, being miserable when happiness abounds. I did my best to hide it, although the people who knew me well, knew.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak, and abject, and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts.