100+ Miserable Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Chris Isaak: 'My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck!'". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

topic: Writing, Advice, Miserable

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

- Christopher Marlowe

topic: Comfort, Companionship, Miserable

Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.

- Christopher Willard

topic: Children, Painting, Miserable

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

- Chuck Norris

topic: America, People, Miserable, Miserable People

I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.

- Cillian Murphy

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Law, Miserable

Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.

- Cintra Wilson

source: Cintra Wilson (2016). “A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined As a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations”, p.104, Wilberforce Codex

topic: Believe, Miserable, Fame, Deserve You

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

- Clare Boothe Luce

topic: Life, Money, Miserable, Money Cant Buy Happiness, Can Money Buy Happiness

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

- Claudius

topic: Miserable, Persons

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

- Cyprian

source: Cyprian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Cyprian (Annotated Edition)”, p.49, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Men, Miserable, Crime

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Long, Matter, Miserable

If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better in the morning. This, of course, is utter nonsense, because a miserable experience remains a miserable experience even on the loveliest of morning.

- Daniel Handler

topic: Morning, Feel Better, Miserable

The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be.

- Daniel Pipes

topic: People, Miserable, Palestinian, Miserable People

Choosing to be miserable is an option, but not one I recommend.

- Darren Johnson

topic: Miserable

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

- David Starr Jordan

source: David Starr Jordan (1983). “The strength of being clean: the physiological laws governing the pursuit of happiness ; The philosophy of hope : understanding the process by which hope displaces despair : an owners manual to the human soul”

topic: Miserable

I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine.

- Diana Krall

topic: Fun, Character, Miserable

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.

- Dick Cavett

topic: Ghost, Miserable, Forlorn

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

- Djuna Barnes

topic: Too Much, Miserable, Made

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

- Donald Ray Pollock

topic: Miserable, Bigs, Reader

Hippy, you think everything is a conspiracy. Everything is!

- Ed Harris

topic: Thinking, Cynical, Miserable

Happiness is your choice to make. How happy or how miserable do you want to be?

- Edgar Cayce

topic: Choices, Want, Miserable

One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.

- Edith Sitwell

topic: Mean, Feelings, Miserable

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

- Edmund Hillary

topic: Climbing, Miserable

But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.

- Edward Furlong

topic: Giving, Sometimes, Miserable, Miserable Person, Sad Depressed

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

topic: Resilience, Matter, Miserable

Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.

- Elizabeth Montagu

source: Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) (1809). “The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents”, p.23

topic: People, Miserable, Capable

You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

topic: Hate, Miserable

Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

- Ellen G. White

topic: Dying, Legacy, Miserable

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

- Erik Satie

topic: God, May, Miserable

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Miserable, Darling

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

- Evelyn Waugh

topic: Ugly, Remember, Miserable, Brideshead Revisited

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

- Evelyn Waugh

source: Evelyn Waugh, Mark Amory (1980). “The letters of Evelyn Waugh”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

topic: Common, Miserable, Common Experience

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

- Federico Fellini

topic: Life Is, Miserable, Existence, Miserable Life

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

topic: People, Ridiculous, Miserable, Brothers Karamazov

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

- George Gissing

topic: Cheerful, Use, Miserable

God has a way of making the most miserable things...Beauti ful.

- Gianna Jessen

topic: Way, Miserable

I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

- Graham Norton

topic: Unhappy, Miserable

The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.

- Greg Laurie

topic: Men, Doe, Miserable

A miserable collection of little secrets, that's all any of us is.Â

- Guillaume Musso

topic: Secret, Littles, Miserable

By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

- H. G. Wells

topic: Despair, Limits, Miserable

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

- Hannah Kent

source: Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

topic: Sight, Miserable, My Family

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.

- Harry Kalas

topic: Life, Laughter, Miserable, Miserable Life

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

- Harry Stack Sullivan

source: Harry Stack Sullivan (2013). “The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry”, p.18, Routledge

topic: Successful, Miserable, Humans

It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.

- Harvey Mackay

topic: Fire, People, Miserable

When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.

- Helen Mirren

topic: Beautiful, Miserable, Young, Young And Beautiful

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Men, World, Miserable

I ask for your forgiveness. I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry.

- Hwang Woo-suk

source: "Disgraced stem cell scientist blames researchers". www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2006.

topic: Sorry, Apology, Miserable

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

- Imelda Marcos

topic: Ugly, Miserable, Filipino

If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

- Immanuel Kant

topic: Justice, Miserable, Murder, Miserable Life

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

- Ina Garten

topic: Cookies, Miserable, Eating

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

- Irvin D. Yalom

topic: Thinking, Life Is, Miserable

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

- Irving Stone

source: Irving Stone (1961). “the Agony and the Ecstasy”

topic: Artist, Would Be, Miserable

You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma

- Jack Gantos

source: Jack Gantos (2002). “What Would Joey Do?”, p.65, Macmillan

topic: Grandma, Miserable, Middle

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

- Jacopo Sannazaro

source: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, "Mind", 1922.

topic: Men, Thinking, Miserable

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

- James Boswell

topic: Men, Miserable

I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.

- James Dean Bradfield

topic: Mental Illness, Miserable, Aggressive, Miserable Person

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

- James Hillman

topic: Thinking, Miserable, Economics

But to appear happy when I am so miserable â€” Oh! who can require it?

- Jane Austen

topic: Miserable

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

- Jane Austen

topic: House, Library, Miserable

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

- Janis Joplin

topic: People, Singers, Miserable

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: People, Misery, Miserable, Generalisation

It's never like we're up there being miserable at work, that's not something that happens for us. We love our work. So, when the performer loves what they're doing, it's easy for us to love what we're doing.

- Jennifer Abbott

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: Miserable, Easy, Performers

How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.

- Jerry Stahl

source: "Go Forth". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. December 17, 2013.

topic: Writing, Miserable, Solutions

Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?

- Jessica Zafra

source: Jessica Zafra (1995). “Twisted”, Anvil Books

topic: Miserable, Should, Loathe, Should I

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

- Johann Arndt

source: Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.52

topic: Men, Naked, Miserable

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

- John Boyne

topic: Sitting, Miserable, Sitting Around

Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!

- John Bytheway

topic: Twenties, Miserable

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

- John Cusack

topic: Funny Music, Miserable, Pops, Pop Music

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

- John Milton

topic: Suffering, Weakness, Miserable

But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

- John Milton

topic: Moving, Misery, Miserable

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Years, Four, Miserable

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.

- John Tillotson

source: John Tillotson (1699). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions : Together with the Rule of Faith : Being All that Were Published by His Grace Himself and Now Collected Into One Volume : to which is Added, an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Matters”, p.338

topic: Men, Riches, Miserable, Covetousness

One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.

- Jon Gordon

topic: Office, Negative, Miserable

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

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Spiders, Suspense, Miserable

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Keys, Selfishness, Miserable, Selflessness, Egoism

I had a mink, and I had money and I was miserable.

- Kay Arthur