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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Robert Anthony
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
Nicolas Chamfort
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
Aldous Huxley
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Joseph Conrad
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
James Tobin
The truth will set you free - but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield
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.
Agatha Christie
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Swami Vivekananda
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
Rene Magritte
I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.
Graham Norton
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.
Graham Greene
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
George Eliot
What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
André Malraux
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
Jane Goodall
A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.
P. G. Wodehouse
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
Frank McCourt
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
Imelda Marcos
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