Miserable Quotes - Page 7

This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

What is more miserable than discontent?

Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.

Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.

Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

Although money alone won't make us happy, the lack of money surely will make us miserable.

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?

Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.

Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked. "Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of that. I suppose it does. What other pleasure can a creature have whose life consists of making everyone else miserable?

I don't like black. You wear black when you're miserable.

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.