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

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
Nicolas Chamfort

The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably.
James Laughlin

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

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

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
Theodore Parker

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
James Tobin

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
Gail Porter

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

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

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift

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

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
Billy Sunday

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

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.
John Grierson

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

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

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