How To Be Miserable Quotes

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Men are often miserable in relationships because they feel their partner takes them for granted, or shows him no appreciation for the things he gets right.

Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.

O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils

A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness.

The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

The happiest of people is the one under whose care people are happy because of him, and the most miserable of people is the one under whose care people are miserable because of him.

People also smile when they are miserable.

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.

There is no happiness finally, there is no peace, there is no joy except we be right with God. The miserable Christian is wrong in his ideas as to how this rightness with God is to be obtained.

Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

Every time you feel miserable, there is present an excellent opportunity to make a big step forward.

A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.

You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.

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

Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.

You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.

Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.

You can't be miserable when you're running. It's such a simple and pure way to feel alive.

If I can get somewhere, I'm all right. If not, I'm miserable.

Without worship, we go about miserable.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

Choose satisfaction over salary. Better to be happy with little than miserable with much.

Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.

My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try not to make somebody else's life miserable because you are.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

I hate fishes, they all look so miserable. 3 seconds later they will forget. And then I envy them.