A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Francis Bacon

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
Hesiod

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Baltasar Gracian

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.
Paul Simon

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
Janis Joplin

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
Albert Bushnell Hart

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

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

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

Choosing to be miserable is an option, but not one I recommend.
Darren L. Johnson

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.
Johann Arndt

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
Nicolas de Chamfort

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

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!
John Foxe