Miserable Quotes - Page 14

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!

Well, you know, it's been in the back of my mind. I just cannot get it out of it. I'm miserable chasing money. I'm 30 years old going through a mid-life crisis!" I just couldn't shut (it) off.

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

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

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

I was sort of miserable and depressed. Music was my savior, but it was also the thing that I felt at times was breaking my heart.

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

Now he's miserable and depressed.

To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.

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

The law showeth unto us our sins, and maketh known unto us our miserable estate and wretchedness, and how that there is nothing good in us, and that we are far off from all manner of righteousness, and so driveth us of necessity to seek righteousness in Christ.

I think we could get people to both be more productive and happier. We're less productive as individuals. We're less productive as companies, and we're more miserable.

When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.

I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all of them.

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

A lot of people depend on their mate or spouse to make them happy and those are the people that are the most miserable.

Whatever you do, protect those you care for. Without them, life is more miserable than you can imagine.

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.

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

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

It's a lot easier to like people when they can't make life miserable for you anymore.

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

If you're miserable and someone flies by looking like they have everything in the whole world and it's never going to be you, that's tough to deal with.

En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise rable: il est donc mise rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.