Miserable Quotes

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

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.

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something.

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

Life is too short to be miserable.

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.