Miserable Quotes - Page 3

Men are often miserable in relationships because they feel their partner takes them for granted, or shows him no appreciation for the things he gets right.

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

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

Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

People also smile when they are miserable.

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.

Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

The happiest of people is the one under whose care people are happy because of him, and the most miserable of people is the one under whose care people are miserable because of him.

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

. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

If you know Christ and him crucified, you know enough to make you happy, supposing you know nothing else. And without this, all your other knowledge cannot keep you from being everlastingly miserable.

Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209)……The more I loved her the more I hated her. And the more she loved me, the more I harmed myself (page 269).

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

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

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

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.

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

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

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

Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.

If I can get somewhere, I'm all right. If not, I'm miserable.