Miserable Quotes

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  Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 12, 2010

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• A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Happy, Philosophical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  William James

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Sadness

  Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 1, ch. 4

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• There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

  Victor Hugo

  Class, Humanity, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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• Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Men, Fool

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  Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Inspiring, Travel, Thinking

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• The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 2

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• Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are

  Germany Kent

  Care, Might, Where You Are

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• Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, People, Handful

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• The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative - insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness - that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Sadness, Insecure, Effort

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• Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.

  Zig Ziglar

  Hate, Happy Life, People

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 11, 2013

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• I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

  Arthur Golden

  Sad, Trying, Misery

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.106, Random House

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• Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Humor

  "Fictional character: Alvy Singer". "Annie Hall", www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.

  Victor Hugo

  Race, Law, Hatred

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.82, Modern Library

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• Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

  Carrie Snow

  Funny, Men, Married

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• We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves. If we are miserable, we say, "Oh, the world is a devil's world." We curse others and say, "What infatuated fools!" But why should we be in such a world, if we really are so good? If this is a devil's world, we must be devils also; why else should we be here? "Oh, the people of the world are so selfish!" True enough; but why should we be found in that company, if we be better? Just think of that.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Selfish, Thinking, People

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.480, Manonmani Publishers

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• For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

  Lev Grossman

  Inspirational, Real, Character

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.264, Penguin

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• try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Trying, Enough, Enjoy

  Marilyn Monroe (2010). “Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters”, p.153, Macmillan

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• Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Thinking, Life Is, Decided

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• Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sadness, Comfort, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux”, p.242

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• We can never flee the misery that is within us.

  Arthur Golden

  Misery, Miserable People

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• Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Happiness, Happy, Thinking

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• The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

  James A. Garfield

  Teacher, Encouragement, Strong Women

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• Life is too short to be miserable.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Life Is

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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