Miserable Quotes - Page 30

• But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost.

  James Frey

  Lost Love, Three, Causes

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• I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.

  Rudolph Valentino

  Looks, Imitator

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• Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable.

  Lauren Groff

  Fighting, Artist, Thinking

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• If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninteresting, boring people behind it.

  Michelle Forbes

  People, Cynical, Unhappy

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• In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.

  Dick Cavett

  Ghost, Forlorn, Said

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.16, Macmillan

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• My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.

  Noel Gallagher

  Stars, Children, Son

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• We guided our children. We supported them. We were there for them. But once you start going through your list of schools that present a potential opportunity, a young man or a young woman has to be happy with their decision. If they are unhappy, then their whole four years of college are going to be some of the most miserable memories of their lifetime.

  Craig Biggio

  Memories, Children, School

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• Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.

  Louis Bonaparte

  Needs, Adventurer

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• The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let go of the reason for it, or move into your real Self. Never let go of - through escape from misery - a good opportunity to grow.

  Lester Levenson

  Letting Go, Real, Moving

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• I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Lonely, Children, Responsibility

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• Every time you feel miserable, there is present an excellent opportunity to make a big step forward.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Steps

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• The universe defies you to answer the following questions: What good is a high paying career if it leaves you continually stressed out and miserable? What good is owning a large stately house if the only time you spend in it is when you sleep in it? What good is having a lot of interesting possessions if you never have the free time to enjoy them? Above all, what good is having a family if you seldom see any of its members?

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Sleep, Careers

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• If it turns out that physical death truly results in the absolute cessation of consciousness, then it would seem to me that in the grand truth of things, every human who has ever lived, who has not committed every minute of their lives toward an effort in finding a cure for mortality, has died as an utter and miserable failure.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Effort, Consciousness

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• All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou are bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Hate, Science, Men

  Frankenstein ch. 10 (1818)

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• Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Book, Choices, Facts

  Thomas De Quincey (1856). “Letters to a Young Man: And Other Papers”, p.40

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• There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Buddhism, Mind

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• I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.

  Charlize Theron

  Jobs, Life And Love, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.

  Diablo Cody

  Powerful, Successful, People

  "Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, and Screenwriter Diablo Cody YOUNG ADULT Interview". Press Conference in New York City, collider.com. December 6, 2011.

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• The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Dwarves, Together

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• A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

  Seneca the Younger

  Comfort, Crowds, Companionship

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 124-25, Consol. ad Marc.', 12, 5, 1922.

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• A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Anxiety, Abuse

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mean, Men, People

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

  Moliere

  Air, Giving, Gold

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• Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part of his readers, but must be a very ill man if he could please himself.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Might, Satire

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• The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

  George Orwell

  War, Home, Scotland

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