Quotes About Miserable

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

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

I was sort of a miserable teenager.

She was tired and miserable and she was saying someone else wanted me, once .

Many human beings spend their finest hours in a facade of satisfaction. By this I mean they think and say they are happy, but in reality they are miserable. They rationalize the fact they have betrayed their dreams, neglected their human treasures and minimized the impact they could have on the planet by telling themselves to be satisfied with what they have, instead of evolving into more.

We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.

Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist. Of course it does, I said. It's what you feel when you're not sad. That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.

The more I discover what I am, the more miserable I get; the more I discover who God is and who God made me, the happier I become.

It's a miserable story!" said Bruno. "It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief." "I haven't got it with me," Sylvie whispered. "Then I won't cry," said Bruno manfully.

I'm ruined," she confided miserably. "Everyone hates me." "I don't," Caleb pointed out. Lily was not consoled. "You're a man," she retorted, "and that doesn't count." Caleb arched his eyebrows at that but said nothing.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.

The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable.

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?

Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

Why you don't take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You'd forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you'd be jolly.

There was something called liberalism (...) Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?

I'm feeling miserable . . . There was no self-pity in his tone, no appeal for sympathy ? only the angry matter-of-factness of a Stoic who has finally grown sick of the long farce of impassibility and is resentfully blurting out the truth.

none of them were happy.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.