Miserable Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• Heterosexual women who've had long-term relationships see their man fall apart. They go, "I'm giving him my whole life - I'm giving him my love, I'm cooking for him, he's got this great sex, he's got everything. Why is he so miserable all of a sudden? Why does he want to get away with his buddies and look at other girls? What is his problem?" It seems like something that happens to men, they feel like their manliness has been chipped away and destroyed by being with just one woman. They feel resentful and they're passive-aggressive.

  Anna Biller

  Girl, Sex, Fall

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Men, Fool

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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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• 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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• 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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• The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  World, Prison, Mercy

  Warren W. Wiersbe (1983). “Live Like a King”, Moody Pub

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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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• ('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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• The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.

  Krist Novoselic

  Dark, Perception, Cobain

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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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• 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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• Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Thinking

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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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• 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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• Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Irreparable Harm, Shining, Months

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• You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Jobs, Insecure, Order

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• It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Patriotic, Divorce

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.373, Wildside Press LLC

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• If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don't read anything informative, don't listen to anything useful, don't do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind.

  John Bytheway

  Love, Morning, School

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• You are young, and in love. Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

  Neil Gaiman

  Positive, Men, Miserable Person

  "Stardust". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1999.

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• I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable...

  Kate Upton

  Acceptance, Enjoy Life, Want

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

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• She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond the powers of either volition or motion. She was so tired, so stunned, that she thought she never slept at all; her feverish thoughts passed and repassed the boundary between sleeping and waking, and kept their own miserable identity.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Moving, Tired, Sleep

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1075, Delphi Classics

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• Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Passion, Heart

  The Scarlet Letter ch. 15 (1850)

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