Miserable Quotes - Page 32

• When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

  Lucille Ball

  Mistake, Years, Mad

  "Love, Lucy" by Lucille Ball, (p. 212), 1996.

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• The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.

  Damon Lindelof

  Years, Feelings, Doubt

  "'Star Trek's' Damon Lindelof on Brad Pitt, Having Power as a Writer and His Agony Over 'Lost'" by Marc Bernardin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 13, 2013.

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• The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will, to application of itself, to pure practice. The realists felt the need and supplied it, though in a most miserable way, by cultivating idea-less and fettered "practical men." Most college students are living examples of this sad turn of events. Trained in the most excellent manner, they go on training; drilled they continue drilling.

  Max Stirner

  Lying, College, Men

  Max Stirner (1967). “The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• It truly is a little intimidating to go speak at a middle school. Sure, on one hand the kids are only around 13 years old, but on the other hand, merely going back there reactivates the dorky, miserable feeling of being that age again. It isn't easy. As soon as I arrived I could almost feel the braces on my teeth, the don't-look-at-me slouch of my shoulders, the feathered wings of my bangs.

  Kristin Armstrong

  School, Kids, Hands

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• On devient moral de'  s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.

  Marcel Proust

  Moral

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• In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It teaches us to see, to feel, to grasp, and to comprehend faith, hope, and charity, far otherwise than mere human reason can; and while evil oppresses us, it teaches how these virtues throw light upon the darkness, and how, after this poor, miserable existence of ours on earth, there is another and an eternal life.

  Martin Luther

  Book, Light, Evil

  Martin Luther (1848). “The Table Talk Or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther”, p.2

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• Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.

  Daniel Defoe

  Husband, Unhappy, May

  Daniel Defoe (1855). “Roxana; Or, The Fortunate Mistress: And The Life and Adventures of Mother Ross”, p.3

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• But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.

  Martin Amis

  Enemy, Faces, Innocence

  Martin Amis (2014). “Experience”, p.39, Vintage

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• Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

  Aristophanes

  Blessing, World, Crowds

  Aristophanes (2004). “Plutus (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.32, Sparklesoup LLC

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• It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.

  Aristophanes

  Believe, Hands, Wicked

  Aristophanes (2004). “Plutus (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.32, Sparklesoup LLC

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• I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion, I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually the case.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Atheist, Thinking

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.55, Basic Books

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• I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.

  William Cobbett

  Drinking, Beer, Views

  "Cottage Economy". Book by William Cobbett, 1821.

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• No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail to his good pleasure. If we put ourselves in such a frame of mind, then, whatever may happen to us, we shall never feel miserable or accuse God falsely because of our lot.

  John Calvin

  Mind, Details, May

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.44, Baker Books

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• I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

  Terry Bradshaw

  People, Dying, My Family

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• I was seventeen years old, a married woman without real responsibilities, miserable about my mixed-up emotions, afraid there was something awfully wrong with me because I didn't enjoy being a wife. Worst of all, I didn't have enough to do.

  Mary Martin

  Real, Responsibility, Years

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

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• As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different--sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Being Yourself, Children, Teenager

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• The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Mean, Play, Hollywood

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

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• It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.

  Peter Greenaway

  Shut Up, Easy

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I feel most miserable When I can't step "step up to the plate" You know? People often say Regret from doing it is better than regret for not doing it

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Regret, People, Steps

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• Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

  Cyprian

  Men, Crime, Adore

  Cyprian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Cyprian (Annotated Edition)”, p.49, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Home, Past, Compliments You

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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• I try to paint from life, but I had such a miserable experience with Bonaparte, who wouldn't sit still and kept mumbling about catching a cold and something incoherent about Wellington , so I finally decided to work from photos.

  Roman Genn

  Trying, Portraiture, Cold

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• No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Heaven, World

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.289, Library of Alexandria

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• We make very little progress when we strive to conquer baser instincts in a good mood. However, vast strides are possible when we are miserable and work with ourselves to replace our misery with joy and understanding.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Joy, Understanding, Growth

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• Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  Garden, Asylums, Cabbage

  "Knowledge of Hell (2008)". Book by Antonio Lobo Antunes, 2008.

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