The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.
I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.
In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money… and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn’t very good at it.
One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
If you feel well and happy, your face will reflect this, but if you are down in the dumps and having a miserable time, your face will soon show this, too. In fact, you get the face you deserve by the time you're forty, and one of the keys to looking and feeling younger is being active.
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.
Scotland is a much lighter and more fun place than I thought it was. I was miserable when I was there. But it wasn't Scotland's fault. It was my circumstances. I was - I hate to say the word humbled - but that's what it felt like. I was wrong about this place. This is a great place full of very fun people.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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