Miserable Quotations

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

Satan tries to counterfeit the work of God, and by doing this, he may deceive many. To make us lose hope, feel miserable like himself, and believe that we are beyond forgiveness, Satan might even misuse words from the scriptures that emphasize the justice of God in order to imply that there is no mercy.

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

If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do become successful because all your problems just get magnified.

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.

I have a series of splintered relationships. Why should I get married again? It's a miserable compromise at best. But I believe in marriage and still have fantasies about it.

All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to give it a lethal injection. These are decisions that should be taken by parents - never the state - in consultation with their doctors.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

It's bad timing, but a lot of kids become teenagers just as their parents are hitting their mid-life crisis. So everybody's miserable and confused and seeking that new sense of identity.

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

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.

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

I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.

If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.

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

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

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.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

The best thing ever is when some guy in his 50s taps me on the shoulder and says, 'I just want to let you know I hate my job, I hate my wife, and I come home and I watch reruns of your show and it's the only half hour of the day when I laugh and I forget how miserable life is.'

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.

I love what I do. When a month goes by and I'm not working, I'm miserable.

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

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.

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

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.

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

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

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

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

But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy

I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy.

What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.

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.

I find it easier to write in the winter in Melbourne. When the weather is good you want to go out for a walk, ride a bike, go to a cafe or something. When it's raining, when it's a miserable day, I just sit down at my desk and get some work done.

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

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

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

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

At the end of the day, I know that I would rather be alone and occasionally lonely and unhappy than in a miserable marriage and lonely and unhappy all the time. I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.

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

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.

If I was doing something for the money, I'd be quite miserable.

The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.

There's nothing worse than walking into a hospital and seeing people sick and miserable and having a horrible treatment.

I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.

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

We're not going to make it enjoyable to lose around here. It's going to be a miserable existence.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

When we were all down and out, having the worst time of our lives -- we were cold and we were miserable -- Emily was bawling, but she still had a smile on her face. Emily is one of the most positive people I know.

When we first got here, it was just miserable conditions. We had to sleep in our trucks the first night, but as we went along, conditions got better.

We're going to McDonald's. We had a miserable day.

We're just so excited because we've been through a few losing seasons, where it's been just miserable around here, and now we're winning and glad we're in the playoffs. We're just happy about life right now and everything's great.

Yes, I sing songs about relationships on the edge, relationships of all kinds, but remember I did not write them all, ... They are not all based on my experiences. Years ago, I wrote with Dennis Walker and Bruce Bromberg, who were 10 years older and divorced two or three times. They had great senses of humor, which is where lines like 'a boatload of lawyers just sank' came from. It is their stories on Strong Persuader, my breakthrough album from 1986. Sneaking out the window, 'Porch Light,' they are not my songs or lines. So, my life is not as miserable as some of the music makes it out to be. My wife Sue and I have been married for 15 years. She's an actor, but Sue gets the credit she deserves on some of my songs.

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

I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

With three major U.S. telecoms under Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, we thought little more could happen to dampen already miserable investor sentiment in the space. Now events at WorldCom leave us virtually lost for words.

I'm so miserable without you, it's almost as if you're here!

What the Rams did to him was wrong. It isn't that they traded him. But they put the word out that he was a bad guy in an attempt to justify the trade. But it took people in Pittsburgh about five minutes to realize it was untrue. But Jerome was miserable over what happened in St. Louis, until he had a chance to get out there and prove the Rams wrong.

Without worship, we go about miserable.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.

I know what makes me happy. I know what makes me miserable. I'm trying to stay on the happy side.

When the Spirit of God moves within us, we must move with Him or be miserable.

My adolescence was quite miserable, when I look back on it, at least my early part of my adolescence. Because there was anti-Semitism in Peoria, and I didn't feel that when I was in elementary school.

Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?

Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.

I couldn't just get up every day and be miserable and complain.

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