How To Be Miserable Quotes

Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

I had an iPhone and a Droid and both of them were miserable pieces of equipment.

The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

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

I learned I could be miserable anywhere in the world. I learned I really was an American.

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

I would like to do a big movie that many, many people see but I just know I would be miserable if it didn't have something to it.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

it is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else

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

Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another.

The Devil...clutched hold of the miserable young man...and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.

I think, life is miserable.

I am malicious because I am miserable

I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.

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.

Sometimes it is good to fall down so that we can see whether we honourably get up or disgracefully turn into a miserable reptile!

What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

I was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged and warped.

We are determined to defeat them and destroy them on the walls of our capital, as we are determined to destroy their miserable armies in every Muslim spot.

None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.

I just think Radiohead are f-in' miserable bastards.

I've been poor and neglected, in the middle and cherished, then rich and miserable and back to the middle and now happy. I've lived it all.

Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.

I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.

The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.

Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

In giving respect we can be very happy, because we can do it in all situations. When we expect respect we are miserable, because it is not that everyone in every situation will respect us.

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.

The miserable person is easily enslaved.The cheerful person,the blissful person,cannot be enslaved.

If I was doing something for the money, I'd be quite miserable.

Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.

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