Miserable Quotes - Page 12

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Humble, Humility, Buddhism

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• When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and the ego dissolves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Ego

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• After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the country people, whose inferior and at times miserable economic situation provokes the flight to the unhappy crowded conditions of the city outskirts, where neither employment nor housing awaits them?

  Pope Paul VI

  Country, Land, Civilization

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• When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Humanity, Understood

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• Gothenburg's definitely a music city as well, but I think just because of the weather - it's so cold and miserable - people stay in. Coming to the States and going into the store and people are like, "Hi, can I help you?" - I'm not used to people randomly talking to me that I don't know.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Thinking, Talking, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements of humanity, she has brought beings into existence who have no business here; who can do none of her work, and endure none of her favours; whose life is only suffering; and whose action is one long protest against the ill foresight which flung them into consciousness.

  James Anthony Froude

  Children, Thinking, Long

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.78

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• Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.

  A. E. Housman

  Lonely, Hero, Men

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• Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Home, Heart

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 2: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning; The citizen of the world”, p.106

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• En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise  rable: il est donc mise  rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Worthy, Knows

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, pt.6, no.416.

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• It's never like we're up there being miserable at work, that's not something that happens for us. We love our work. So, when the performer loves what they're doing, it's easy for us to love what we're doing.

  Jennifer Abbott

  Easy, Performers, Happens

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Years, Class, White

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• I drew pictures for and about the soldiers because I knew what their life was like and understood their gripes. I wanted to make something out of the humorous situations which come up even when you don't think life could be any more miserable.

  Bill Mauldin

  Humorous, Thinking, Soldier

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• How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

  Erica Jong

  Forever, Blame Someone, May

  erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

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• The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is something. It is equally difficult for the man in miserable circumstances because he is almost invincibly led to believe that the rich and powerful man is something.

  Simone Weil

  Powerful, Believe, Men

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

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• It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.

  Cyril Connolly

  Sick, Misery, Forget

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

  Cyril Connolly

  Lasts, Firsts, First Time

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

  Amy Lee

  Thinking, Perfect, Admitting

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• Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.

  Laura Riding

  Clever, Thinking, Imagination

  "Progress of Stories". Book by Laura Riding. Chapter "Daisy and Venison", 1935.

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• the miserable specimens who call themselves ' liberals ' are really conservatives: they're desperately even hysterically defending a welfare-warfare kleptocracy that is now at least four generations old, against growing numbers of us (unlike Republicans , who seem to become more ignorant with every passing year) who have actually managed to learn something from history and are struggling to dismantle said kleptocracy.

  L. Neil Smith

  Struggle, Numbers, Years

  "A Matter of Definition". The Libertarian Enterprise Article, www.ncc-1776.org. August 08, 2010.

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• It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and cruel only through the action of insidious and oppressive laws. And I believe therefore that if man be given laws which harmonize with the dictates of nature and of his heart he will cease to be unhappy and corrupt.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's speech to the National Convention, April 24, 1793.

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• (Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Agreement, People, Intellectual

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.64, 谷月社

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• If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hate, Men, Energy

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.24, 谷月社

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Spiders, Suspense

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1812). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...”, p.169

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• One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.

  Edith Sitwell

  Mean, Feelings, Surroundings

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), John Lehmann, Derek Parker (1970). “Selected letters”, MacMillan

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• Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Fate, Dull, Offensive

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1825). “The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers”, p.541

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