Miserable Quotes - page 25

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you like my novels, I commend your good taste. (Rita Mae Brown)
According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am. View quote
Vince Cable
One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable. View quote
Edith Sitwell
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. View quote
Chuck Norris
In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously. View quote
David Mamet
One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
You can't marry this Archibald. He's a gloomy, miserable cripple that hides himself away in that horrible house. You've said it yourself, you can't believe you love him and neither can I! View quote
Frances Hodgson Burnett
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our ''gross public'' to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth. View quote
Edith Wharton
I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be. View quote
Trent Reznor
The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism. View quote
Corey Taylor
Your life doesn't get any better than your mind is: You might have wonderful friends, perfect health, a great career, and everything else you want, and you can still be miserable. (Sam Harris)
Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes. View quote
Imre Lakatos
Unfortunately, not all can be permitted to possess immortality. Too many would make immortality miserable or hellish for the rest, and they would try to control others through their control of the resurrection machinery. View quote
Philip José Farmer
How dismal the necessity of birth! how miserable the necessity of living! how hard the necessity of death! View quote
Sidonius Apollinaris
He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead conscience which feels nothing, and a dumb conscience which says nothing, is in as miserable a condition as a man can be on this side of hell. View quote
Patrick Henry
Strange fate for man! He must perish if he get that, which he must perish if he strive not after. If he strive not after it he is no better than the brutes, if he get it he is more miserable than the devils. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them! View quote
Harry Connick
I was miserable as a kid. View quote
Maurice Sendak
Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person. View quote
Maurice Sendak
The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Translated: We are no one's, always at a boundary, always someone's dowry. Is it a wonder then that we are poor? For centuries now we have been seeking our true selves, yet soon we will not know who we are, we will forget that we ever wanted anything; others do us the honour of calling us under their banner for we have none, they lure us when we are needed and discard us when we have outserved the purpose they gave us. We remain the saddest little district of the world, the most miserable people of the world, losing our own persona and nor being able to take on anyone else's, torn away and not accepted, alien to all and everyone, including those with whom we are most closely related, but who will not recognise us as their kin. We live on a divide between worlds, at the border between nations, always at a fault to someone and first to be struck. Waves of history strike us as a sea cliff. Crude force has worn us out and we made a virtue out of a necessity: we grew smart out of spite. (Meša Selimović)
The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad. View quote
George Orwell
The feudal barons of the Middle Ages, the economic predecessors of the capitalists of our day, declared all wars. And their miserable serfs fought all the battles. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy. View quote
James Boswell
Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats. View quote
Paula Poundstone