Miserable Quotes - Page 27

• When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

  Linda Hunt

  Growing Up, Teenage, Years

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• Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'

  Bam Margera

  Fun, Philosophy, Trying

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• Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

  Lydia Lunch

  Wells, Can't Change, Persons

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• I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.

  Zosia Mamet

  School, College, Hated

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Still, being alone doesn't mean you have to be miserable. In that sense it's different from losing something. You've still got yourself, even if you lose everything else. You've got to have faith in yourself and not get down just because you're on your own.

  Yoko Ogawa

  Mean, Different, Have Faith

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• No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.108

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• It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Eulogy

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• Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

  Thomas Traherne

  Happiness, Believe, Made

  Thomas Traherne (2007). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.237, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Atheists anger doesn't prove that we're selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We're angry because we see terrible harm all around us, and we feel desperately motivated to stop it.

  Greta Christina

  Atheist, Selfish, Anger

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• No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. 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. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Hate, Hands, People

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• You listen to the mind, you become miserable - otherwise, this today is paradise! And there is no other paradise, this today is nirvana. If you had not listened to the mind... just don't listen to the mind, then you are not in misery; because misery cannot exist without expectations and without hopes. And when misery exists you need more hopes for it, to hide it, to live somehow. Live hopelessly - then you are a righteous man, then you are retired.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Righteous Man, Expectations

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• Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.

  William Wordsworth

  Pain, Fear, Gains

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.87

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• Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Pain, Given, Thee

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• Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.

  Boethius

  Balance, Unhappy, Passing Away

  Boethius, David R Slavitt (2008). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

  Edward Abbey

  Reading, Men, Biographies

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.

  Edward Abbey

  Law, Space, Alaska

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as to persuade people that they are badly governed. Take happy and comfortable people and talk to them with the art of the evil one, and they can soon be made discontented with their government, their rulers, with everything around them, and even with themselves.

  Thomas Hutchinson

  Art, Thinking, Government

  Thomas Hutchinson (2010). “The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson”, p.18, Applewood Books

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• But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.

  Lynn Johnston

  Guy, Married, Treated

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
  Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
  Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
  And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
  Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
  To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

  John Milton

  Wrath, Heaven, Suffering

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 73

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• It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

  James Boswell

  Men, Every Man

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• I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Book, Writing

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

  Immanuel Kant

  Justice, Murder, Crime

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• It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Ungrateful, Doe, Lasts

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• According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

  Vince Cable

  Paper, Resignation, Papers

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• When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.

  Brian Austin Green

  Giving Up, Real, Thinking

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