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

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
Cynthia Nelms

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
Boethius

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.
Louis Bonaparte

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.
Jupiter Hammon

One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.
June Carter Cash

Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
Zhang Yimou

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

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.
Rem Koolhaas

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

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
Nick Cave

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
Thomas Mann

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
Quentin Crisp

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

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
David Herbert Lawrence

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.
Chuck Norris

Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
Marion Milner

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
Lydia Lunch

That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.
Susanna Hoffs

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