Miserable Quotes

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

Yourself, Done, Whatever

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin Franklin

Happy, Working, Idle

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

Happiness, Money, While

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
Kinky Friedman

Marriage, Gay, Support

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Swami Vivekananda

Power, Greatest, Cannot

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

Happy, Secret, Whether

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw

Happy, Enough, Whether

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
Voltaire

Optimism, Madness, Insisting

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
Shania Twain

Life, Trust, Emotional

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
Erma Bombeck

Nothing, Photo, Paradise

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith

Society, Happy, Poor

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

Men, Fight, Important

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.
John Wooden

Trust, Time, Find

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

Life, Fine, Lunch

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James

Nothing, Human, Indecision

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie

Through, Living, Sometimes

The person 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

Men, Fight, Important

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Aldous Huxley

Men, Long, Worship

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

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Future, Mind, Anxious

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.
Seth Godin

Happy, Game, Play

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?
Princess Diana

Happy, Rich, Poor

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
Woody Allen

Job, Person, Done

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

Happiness, Wish, Leave

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
Ambrose Bierce

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Joseph Conrad

Loneliness, Lonely, True

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

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen

Life, Divided, Horrible

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie

Through, Sometimes, Alive

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