How To Be Miserable Quotes

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made a miserable mess of it.

Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.

People are living such miserable lives economically. They want the escape. They want the fantasy. They'd love the dream of being king for a day or queen for a day.

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

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

They [leftists] are outraged when people are not cranky and not miserable. They want everybody to be, if they are. It isn't fair that some people should be enjoying life when other people don't.

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.

That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.

I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

The miserable are sacred.

People make fun of what I'm eating because they can tell I hate it. They know I am not happy eating healthy food. I look miserable - I look like I would rather be eating something else.

The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.

We all make mistakes. Sometimes I think the only point of our miserable lives is simply to learn how to live with the consequences of the bad decisions we´ve made.

I want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible genes. I want to hear from the geek girl, the forgotten girl, the invisible girl and the miserable girl.

I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.

Make movies you love because it's miserable. Every movie I've worked on at one point or another is exhausting, and you feel like you're making a bad movie.

Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.

If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable.

Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty...all of it. I would feel everything. It would all be mine.

In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.

If a person who lives in God becomes miserable, what is the use of living in God? What is the use of such a God? Throw such a God overboard into the Pacific Ocean. We do not want such a God!

As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.

And you know there’s nothing like writing a song about someone who’s mean to you, and just makes your life miserable…and then winning a Grammy for it.

Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

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.

Everybody's vaguely miserable sometimes...and most people are vaguely miserable most of the time. The trick is to scrap your way from the most-of-the-time to the some-of-the-time category.

If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.

I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.

What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.

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

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.

It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.

So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was "the man", the envy of every other guy in our school. Buddy, I was miserable." -Bryce Loski

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!

Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.

I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.