Miserable Quotes

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.

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

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

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

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

But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.

The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.

I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

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.

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.

Without literature my life would be miserable.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.