Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

Make sure that you are happy with what you are doing; otherwise, you will be miserable. Pursue your dream. Don't give up.

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.

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.

Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

Very quickly, kids take your plan and say, 'Ha!' so you have to learn to be adaptable, or you will be literally miserable.

So I went to WCW for three years and quite frankly, it was the most miserable three years of my life in terms of business.

None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

I'm not a proponent of staying together and being miserable and damaged and coming through actually a more battered person.

I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.

I think what's wrong with too many people is they're too reserved. They're miserable, but they don't want to talk about it.

The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.

I love audiences. They are my oxygen. I only breathe with audience. When I'm alone, I am normally a miserable you-know-what.

The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.

. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

It's such a long season, right? It's certainly serious business, but it's no sense that we all have to be miserable doing it.

My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.

Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn’t feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad.

I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.

Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.

Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.

It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.

Nobody has the power to make you miserable . . . unless you choose to give them that power. Choose to enjoy every drop of today!

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.

Let's not be miserable when we win. There's definitely people in places that, even when they win, they're not happy. That's sad.

I was sort of miserable and depressed. Music was my savior, but it was also the thing that I felt at times was breaking my heart.

I would like to do a big movie that many, many people see but I just know I would be miserable if it didn't have something to it.

You have a choice: Support the woman standing next to you, or compete with her. But if you compete, you're going to be miserable.

Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want to change it.

Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?

I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all of them.

There are so many miserable people out there who have not fulfilled their dreams. I believe you should do something that you love.

For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

I think if there is a God, it's very important that he has a sense of humour - otherwise, you are in for a very miserable afterlife.

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm miserable during Ramadan. Some would say I'm miserable all year round, but it does affect my mood.

Yes, I'm a miserable, wretched sinner, but He loves me. And to Him, I'm His child, and I can walk in that love and that understanding.

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