Miserable Quotes - page 22

I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person. (Rosemary Mahoney)
I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us. View quote
Roy Wood
On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right. View quote
Sharon Creech
If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do become successful because all your problems just get magnified. View quote
Sinbad
I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy. View quote
Sonja Sohn
The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune. View quote
Steve Vai
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. View quote
Susanna Hoffs
The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable. View quote
Scott Weiland
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. View quote
Terry Bradshaw
I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school. View quote
Zosia Mamet
You wanted happiness, I can't blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you're not miserable. (Richard Siken)
England struck me as a very miserable place, dark and drab, without the bright skies of India. View quote
Mark Tully
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it. View quote
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away. View quote
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
The problems we see today are going to be a hell of a lot worse in 10 years if we're not willing to face up to them. These kids are just not going to be absorbed into the economy, so what are they going to be doing? Well, we know. They're going to be making life pretty miserable for a lot of people. View quote
William Julius Wilson
At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me. View quote
David Sedaris
he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers; is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
This president is a miserable failure on foreign policy and on the economy and he's got to be replaced. View quote
Dick Gephardt
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil. View quote
Marquis de Sade
I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children. View quote
Salma Hayek
I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it. (Thomas Paine)
Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes. View quote
Frédéric Chopin
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them. View quote
Maxim Gorky
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives. View quote
Paulo Coelho
When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who starched and ironed dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I'd come in the house with my hair pulled out, sash off the dress, dirty as heck. I was always getting spanked. View quote
Tina Turner