Quotes About Miserable

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

But the marriage remained miserable. Marie-Henriette fled the royal château of Laeken to go horseback riding for most of each day.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable

It is not the contented or the glowing who have left many of the profound testimonies of what it means to be alive. It seems that such knowledge has usually been the privileged preserve of, and the only blessing granted to, the violently miserable.

If you had a population that were miserable and restless because they had nowhere bearable to live, then the preferred solution seemed not to be spending money on improving their condition but on hiring more police in case things should turn ugly, housing these new myrmidons in properties from which the itchy and disgruntled man-herds were already serendipitously purged.

huddled together at the left end of the bar, as silent and miserable as kittens in a sack with the bridge getting close.

The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

You're an asshole, Conrad. You just want everyone to be as miserable as you are.

You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

Traditional religion turned the consciousness of sin into a condition for salvation; but the tortured sense of nothingness of the neurotic qualifies him now only for miserable extinction, for merciful release in lonely death.

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull.

The mother instinct is something of which I am completely devoid. I explain it like this to myself: life is a vale of tears and all human beings are miserable creatures, so I cannot take the responsibility for bringing yet another unhappy creature into the world.

Not so with our characters. They have no metaphysics, no order, no law. They are miserable and they don't know why. They are puppets, undone. In short, they represent modern man. Their situation is not tragic, since it has no relation to a higher order. Instead, it's ridiculous, laughable, and derisory.

If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.