I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
Viggo Mortensen

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
James Hillman

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.
John Frusciante

I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
Noel Gallagher

I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
Dan Marino

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.
Brett Hull

I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.
Joe Pantoliano

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

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.
Tim Conway

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.
Vinoba Bhave

If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.
Archibald Alexander

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

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
Patrick White

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
James Hillman

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
James Boswell

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

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.
William Wyler

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

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
Bette Davis