Miserable Quotes - Page 13

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

In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are delivered from the miserable pressure of the will. We celebrate the Sabbath from the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still.

Self Pity is the most miserable party to go to, because, in case you haven't noticed, you're the only one who is there.

You have to be a pretty miserable person to not enjoy making movies. It's something I always dreamed about. I do not take it for granted.

I've never known about anyone being helped by being told how wretched, miserable, sinful, and evil they are.

I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched, miserable and sinful they are.

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

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

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

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.

The vexing thing about human behavior is that when we say we know we should do something, we really and truly do know it. It's hard to be 50 lbs. overweight or smoke a pack a day or feel miserable every moment you spend at work and not understand in a deep and primal way that change is in order - and that in some cases it could even save your life.

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

Had I not spent so much time doing something that made me so miserable, I would have never learned how to appreciate doing what brings me joy.

You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable.

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious

The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]

Don't create a plastic image of what it is to be spiritual and try to become it. You won't be capable of it and that will frustrate you. Even if you could do it, if it's not really what you're like, you'll be miserable.

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

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

He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.