Miserable Quotes

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

Great, Experience, Joy

I am not one of those fat birds who feels miserable because models are thin. Frankly, I feel more insulted by the idea that unless I see other fat birds in fashion magazines, I will be reduced to a sniveling wreck of a human being.
Julie Burchill

Human, Fashion, Idea

Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.
Arthur Smith

Human, Far, Behind

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

Sometimes, Her, Approach

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
Adam Carolla

Good, Money, Nice

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.
Matthew Perry

Success, Happy, Together

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.
Vince Cable

Simply, Papers, Brink

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

Bad, Career, Why

I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.
Matt Groening

Life, Time, Happy

The vexing thing about human behavior is that when we say we know we should do something, we really and truly do know it. It's hard to be 50 lbs. overweight or smoke a pack a day or feel miserable every moment you spend at work and not understand in a deep and primal way that change is in order - and that in some cases it could even save your life.
Jeffrey Kluger

Life, Change, Work

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

Time, Guitar, Wanted

Without literature my life would be miserable.
Naguib Mahfouz

Life, Literature

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
Ben Okri

Happy, Friends, Lived

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.
Jack Kevorkian

End, Hopeless, Lives

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Walter Savage Landor

Person, Found, Occupied

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
Ritchie Blackmore

Melancholy, Instrument, Isolated

I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.
Graham Norton

Rather, Unhappy

Scotland is a much lighter and more fun place than I thought it was. I was miserable when I was there. But it wasn't Scotland's fault. It was my circumstances. I was - I hate to say the word humbled - but that's what it felt like. I was wrong about this place. This is a great place full of very fun people.
Craig Ferguson

Great, Hate, Fun

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
Claudius

Nothing, Person, Wills

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.
Chris Isaak

Music, Great, Advice

I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.
Robert Winston

War, School, Remember

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
Maxim Gorky

Earth, Disgusting, Accepts

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
Joseph Butler

Love, Themselves, Might

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

Whole, Actor, Process

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?
Arthur Smith

Lonely, Long, Meet

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.
Bob Barker

Age, Good, Health

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.
Todd Solondz

Life, Live, Hard

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

Money, Enjoy, Matter

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.
Paula Poundstone

Home, Two, Once

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

Happy, Married, Guy

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