Miserable Quotes - Page 6

Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?

Nobody has the power to make you miserable . . . unless you choose to give them that power. Choose to enjoy every drop of today!

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

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

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

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

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

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

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

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

Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.

I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time.

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.

You are young, and in love. Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.

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.

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.

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.

You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma