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Quotes About Miserable

April 23, 1852. Friday.]...Arrived at Provo at noon...This town looks dirty. The houses look miserable, and many young men idling in the Streets. It seems there is not much energy here, and there seems to be little spirit of accommodation or friendship among people.
~ William Clayton
The philanthropists and humanitarians have their minds all full of the wretched and miserable whose case appeals to compassion, attacks the sympathies, takes possession of the imagination, and excites the emotions. They
~ William Graham Sumner
it hurt me, and pained my very heart, that any body should show me any respect. Alas! methought, how sadly they are deceived in me! how miserably would they be disappointed, if they knew my inside! Oh my heart! -
~ David Brainerd
In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
~ David Mamet
I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
~ James Hillman
The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness is your choice to make. How happy or how miserable do you want to be?
~ Edgar Cayce
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
~ Anatole France
To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.
~ Virginia Woolf
"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."
~ Samuel Johnson
She knows what it is to be sad and miserable, but those emotions are almost enjoyable. They throw moments of happiness and laughter into sharper relief.
~ Simon Mawer, The Glass Room
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
Baseball was my refuge. When I came on the field, I did my job, and did the best I could and focused on that. Then I went home and I was miserable. That was pretty much my routine every day.?
~ Joey Votto
The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.
~ Jo Brand
Let us hope that life grant an opportunity to those miserable who live in the golden palaces to taste the infinite peace of a wooden cottage in the countryside and so their misery ends!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
~ William Shakespeare
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
~ Seneca the Younger
Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.
~ Tim Ferriss
You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery.
~ Frederick Lenz
Life is too short to be miserable for 40+ hours a week.
~ A. Dalcourt
Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown.
~ Jane Austen, Emma
everybody knew the only thing that made Goss more miserable than pilots was pilots having fun.
~ Jason Fry
When you are not in your body, however, an emotion can survive inside you for days or weeks, or join with other emotions of a similar frequency that have merged and become the pain-body, a parasite that can live inside you for years, feed on your energy, lead to physical illness, and make your life miserable
~ Eckhart Tolle