Miserable Quotes - Page 11

As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.

Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty...all of it. I would feel everything. It would all be mine.

Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41)

If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable.

I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.

Make movies you love because it's miserable. Every movie I've worked on at one point or another is exhausting, and you feel like you're making a bad movie.

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

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

The miserable are sacred.

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.

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

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

The miserable person is easily enslaved.The cheerful person,the blissful person,cannot be enslaved.

In giving respect we can be very happy, because we can do it in all situations. When we expect respect we are miserable, because it is not that everyone in every situation will respect us.

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.

The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.

Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I didn't quite build St Paul's, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.

It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.

Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.

I've been poor and neglected, in the middle and cherished, then rich and miserable and back to the middle and now happy. I've lived it all.

I just think Radiohead are f-in' miserable bastards.

None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.