Miserable Quotes - Page 4

• We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable.

  Jewel

  Prayer, Angel, Answers

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

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• On a practical level, I'm uncomfortable at comedy clubs because there are so many shitty dude comics who have made my life miserable. If I go to a comedy club and I look around, I don't know which of the dudes lining the wall told me that I was too fat to get raped. It makes me nauseous. But that was a couple years ago, and meanwhile, comedy has changed a lot.

  Lindy West

  Wall, Couple, Comedy

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• When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Humanity, Understood

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• The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Years, Lasts, Firsts

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, 1895.

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• Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Home, Heart

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 2: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning; The citizen of the world”, p.106

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• Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Has Beens

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• Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Years, Class, White

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars, but they became a librarian or something. I've heard women say again and again when the subject of Germaine comes up: 'Well, her book changed my life for the better.' And they'll be modest women living pretty ordinary lives, but better lives.

  Germaine Greer

  Life Changing, Book, Ordinary

  "Germaine Greer" by Laura Miller, www.salon.com. June 22, 1999.

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• I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Thinking, Wish

  Bertrand Russell (1995). “My Philosophical Development”, p.23, Psychology Press

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• The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is something. It is equally difficult for the man in miserable circumstances because he is almost invincibly led to believe that the rich and powerful man is something.

  Simone Weil

  Powerful, Believe, Men

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

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• It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.

  Cyril Connolly

  Sick, Misery, Forget

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• Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

  Cyril Connolly

  Lasts, Firsts, First Time

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• [H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Blessing, Men, Life Is

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Comfort, Companionship, Poor

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• Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Eye, Next, Painting

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• When a difficult situation comes into your life, it is possible to tune in to your mind and say, ?Okay, choose.? Are you going to make yourself miserable or content? Are you going to visualize scarcity or abundance? Are you going to put yourself down for getting angry with your husband or are you simply going to notice what insecurity you were feeling at the time and discuss it with him? The choice is definitely yours. Pick the one that contributes most to your aliveness and growth.

  Susan Jeffers

  Husband, Difficult Situations, Choices

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• Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Sadness, Men, Half

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• She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do without her.

  Marcus Garvey

  Real, Women, Kind

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.9, Ravenio Books

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• It's a mistake to expect benefits from any pose. Expectations make you restless because if you fail to get what you expect, you feel miserable. Yoga practice is an act of adoration to the Lord. You do it because it has to be done. If you have this mental attitude, your selfishness disappears and the benefits come.

  Dharma Mittra

  Attitude, Mistake, Yoga

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• Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Names

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• You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Ego

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• Gothenburg's definitely a music city as well, but I think just because of the weather - it's so cold and miserable - people stay in. Coming to the States and going into the store and people are like, "Hi, can I help you?" - I'm not used to people randomly talking to me that I don't know.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Thinking, Talking, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Believe things will work out. How was I ever to know that the girl who broke my heart in university would lead to my soulmate? How was I to know that the ‘dream job’ I was rejected from out of college would lead me to a year of entrepreneurship and adventure in Spain? How was I to know that taking a miserable job back in the states would be just the push I needed to vow to never do something I wasn’t passionate about again? Everything works out. I mean everything. As long as you believe it will. When you do, you will find the silver lining. That will take you to the next level.

  Steve Jobs

  Girl, Dream, Soulmate

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• The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?

  W. H. Auden

  Giving, Singing, Sake

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("Writing"), (p. 27), 1962.

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• Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.

  A. E. Housman

  Lonely, Hero, Men

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