Miserable Quotes - Page 10

• Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

  William S. Burroughs

  Successful, Men, Intelligent

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• We all struggle. I'm not saying any successful woman's life is without struggle. But it doesn't mean it has to be miserable.

  Brooke Shields

  Struggle, Mean, Successful

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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

  Marilyn Monroe

  Happy Alone

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• I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.

  Elizabeth I

  Reading, Together, Gathering

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• From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

  Teresa of Avila

  Night, Heaven, Looks

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• I don't like black. You wear black when you're miserable.

  Loulou de la Falaise

  Black

  "Loulou de la Falaise obituary" by Veronica Horwell, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

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• 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.

  Simon Kinberg

  Love Is, Like You, Feels

  "Producer Roundtable: 6 Filmmakers on 'Compton' Threats, Tarantino Outbursts and the Truth Behind a 'Star Wars' 'Firing'". Interview with Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2015.

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

  Noel Gallagher

  Thinking, Radiohead

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• When I woke up later, I had established all these businesses and we were growing and everything was going well and I was miserable because I was chasing money and not happiness. I decided that day in August that I would quit chasing money and start chasing passion and allow the money to grow around me...I wanted to have passion in my life to show my girls to live by passion.

  Drew Waters

  Girl, Passion, August

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• What sentence will you choose to impose on yourself? Are you willing to stop suffering and making yourself miserable when your sentence has expired? This would at least be a responsible way to punish yourself because it would be time-limited.

  David D. Burns

  Suffering, Would Be, Way

  David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

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• 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.

  Salman Rushdie

  Real, Believe, Cities

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

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• I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems.

  Billy Collins

  Character, Kids, Happy Kid

  "Poet Billy Collins discusses humor, authenticity and ‘Aimless Love’". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2013.

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• There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

  Brendan Behan

  Made, Situation, Policemen

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• It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Two, Tragedy

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892) See Goethe 15; T. H. Huxley 4; Modern Proverbs 14; George Bernard Shaw 16; Wilde 74

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• 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.

  Tom Hollander

  Lapses, Spirit, Occasional

  Source: collider.com

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• If you know Christ and him crucified, you know enough to make you happy, supposing you know nothing else. And without this, all your other knowledge cannot keep you from being everlastingly miserable.

  George Whitefield

  Christ, Enough, Make You Happy

  George Whitefield (1832). “Sermons”, p.517

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Church, Teach

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.274, Library of Alexandria

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• I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining yourself by what other people think of you, it's a form of self-torture.

  Sarah Silverman

  Thinking, Differences, Self

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• I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn't work. It doesn't suit day-to-day life.

  Tom Hollander

  Opportunity, People, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• ('Mad Men') was my final audition of the pilot season. It had been three miserable, horrible months where I had zero callbacks, zero positive reception, one of those pilot seasons that makes you pretty sure you are never going to be an actor and never want to be an actor. And then that happened.

  Rich Sommer

  Zero, Men, Mad

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• Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our hopes. A gospel of a dead Savior would be a miserable failure and delusion. The Resurrection is the victory of righteousness and life over sin an death.

  Philip Schaff

  Victory, Would Be, Sin

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• Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people will make of the blessings which a gracious God hath bestowed on us. If they are wise, they will be great and happy. If they are of a contrary character, they will be miserable. Righteousness alone can exalt them as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this: and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, an encourage it in others.

  Patrick Henry

  Wise, Art, Character

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

  Max Lucado

  Salary, Littles, Satisfaction

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• Well, you know, it's been in the back of my mind. I just cannot get it out of it. I'm miserable chasing money. I'm 30 years old going through a mid-life crisis!" I just couldn't shut (it) off.

  Drew Waters

  Years, Mind, Chasing

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time.

  Adolf Hitler

  Punishment, Games, Roles

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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