Miserable Quotes - Page 5 of 16

• John Cusack / Actor

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

• Marion Milner / Author

Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

• Mia Maestro / Actress

If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

• Ayesha Takia

People who worry about stupid things, just end up looking miserable after a while - it shows.

• Bob Schieffer / Journalist

But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.

• Nujood Ali

Marriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.

• Sienna Miller / Actress

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.

• Stendhal / Writer

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

• Zhang Yimou / Film Director

Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

• Joyce Meyer / Author

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

• Carrie Snow / Comedian

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

• Edward Furlong / Actor

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

• Clare Boothe Luce / Former U.S. Congresswoman

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

• John Shelby Spong / Author

I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched, miserable and sinful they are.

• Lynn Johnston / Cartoonist

But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.

• Stanley Donwood / Artist

I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time.

• Carlos Castaneda / Author

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

• Chamique Holdsclaw / Basketball Player

I know what makes me happy. I know what makes me miserable. I'm trying to stay on the happy side.

• Imelda Marcos / Model

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

• Plutarch / Biographer

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

• Edith Pearlman / Short Story Writer

I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.

• Kenneth Lonergan / Playwright

I personally don't need to see a story about a person that starts up miserable and ends up worse.

• Sophie Dahl / Author

I think it would be a bit miserable going out with somebody who was totally uninterested in food.

• Ronald Perelman / Businessman

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

• The Weeknd / Recording Artist

Staying in a hopeless and miserable situation doesn't make you loyal, it just makes you miserable.

• Tara Westover

If you want to live a miserable life, making your life all about other people is the way to do it.

• Nick Cave / Musician

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

• Elizabeth Hardwick / Novelist

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

• Vikramaditya Motwane

I love writing but it's a real pain. It's a miserable process - very satisfying but very miserable.

• Lester Levenson / Author

Every time you feel miserable, there is present an excellent opportunity to make a big step forward.

• Christopher Marlowe / Dramatist

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

• Patrick Lencioni / Writer

You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.

• Tom Burke / Actor

I mean, happiness is a slippery thing. What makes you happy one day can make you miserable the next.

• Brad Meltzer / Novelist

There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.

• Brendan Behan / Poet

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

• Dorothy Osborne / Writer

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

• Franz Kafka / Writer

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

• Teresa Of Avila / Saint

What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.

• Thomas Browne / Author

Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

• Nicolas Chamfort / Writer

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

• Robert Burton / Scholar

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

• Rupert Everett / Actor

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

• Christopher Paolini / Author

Whatever you do, protect those you care for. Without them, life is more miserable than you can imagine.

• George Bernard Shaw / Playwright

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

• Jo Brand / Actress

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

• Mikhail Lermontov / Writer

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

• Warren W. Wiersbe / Writer

The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.

• Reggie Lee / Film Actor

The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.

• Peter Singer / Philosopher

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.

• Walter Mischel / Psychologist

Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.