Miserable Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ocean, Use, Want

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• With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world

  John Smith

  Country, World, Causes

  John Smith (2007). “The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography”, National Geographic Books

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• Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.

  Tim Sandlin

  Matter, Empty, Persons

  Tim Sandlin (2011). “Western Swing: A Novel”, p.128, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

  Homer

  Hateful, Mortals

  Odyssey VII.215

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• One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in the science, and I hope to disprove Young's theory that "as soon as we have found the key of life it opes the gates of death." Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest. What a miserable augury for the progress of the race and the destination of the individual if the more matured and enlightened state is the less happy one!

  George Eliot

  Believe, Keys, Race

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

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• You must be made miserable before you can know true Christian joy. Indeed the real trouble with the miserable Christian is that he has never been truly made miserable because of conviction of sin. He has by-passed the essential preliminary to joy, he has been assuming something that he has no right to assume.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Real, Joy

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1995). “Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings”, Nelson Bibles

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

  Joseph Brodsky

  Ifs, I Can

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.

  Christina Aguilera

  Stars, School, Tire

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• The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Beautiful, Horse, Men

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• God said, Here. Have it. Enjoy it. I'm gonna be miserable?

  Lenny Kravitz

  Said, Enjoy

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• 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.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Ideas, Joy

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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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• Staying in a hopeless and miserable situation doesn't make you loyal, it just makes you miserable.

  The Weeknd

  Loyal, Hopeless, Situation

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• I really don't work a whole lot as far as touring, but I do stand-up every night of my life, no matter where I am. It's really made the touring a lot less grueling. A lot of people get to this level and they're like, Now I do four cities in one week and they tour nonstop. I'm like, No, that sounds miserable. I'll just do two weekends a month. But whenever I'm in some awful place geographically, it's no longer that awful, because you've got the Internet and television.

  Daniel Tosh

  Weekend, Night, Cities

  "Daniel Tosh’s jokes sneak up on you while you’re already laughing". Interview with John Wenzel, www.denverpost.com. February 18, 2009.

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• Unfortunately this is where comedy works, where people are the most miserable.

  Doug Stanhope

  People, Comedy

  "Doug Stanhope: No Refunds". Documentary, Comedy, 2007.

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• On a practical level, I'm uncomfortable at comedy clubs because there are so many shitty dude comics who have made my life miserable. If I go to a comedy club and I look around, I don't know which of the dudes lining the wall told me that I was too fat to get raped. It makes me nauseous. But that was a couple years ago, and meanwhile, comedy has changed a lot.

  Lindy West

  Wall, Couple, Comedy

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• It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Comfort, Companionship, Poor

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• For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!... A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not - but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes - bad, if he always stays in the same place.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Art, Travel, Men

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• 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.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Long, Religion

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• Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Passion, Men, May

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• She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do without her.

  Marcus Garvey

  Real, Women, Kind

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.9, Ravenio Books

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• A happy but miserable state in which man finds himself from time to time; sometimes he believes he is happy by loving, then suddenly he finds how miserable he is. It is all joy, it sweetens life, but it does not last. It comes and goes, but when it is active, there is no greater virtue, because it makes one supremely happy.

  Marcus Garvey

  Love, Believe, Men

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.10, Ravenio Books

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• It's a mistake to expect benefits from any pose. Expectations make you restless because if you fail to get what you expect, you feel miserable. Yoga practice is an act of adoration to the Lord. You do it because it has to be done. If you have this mental attitude, your selfishness disappears and the benefits come.

  Dharma Mittra

  Attitude, Mistake, Yoga

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• Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Names

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