Miserable Quotes - Page 9

• There are only two kinds of men who become dentists. The ones who love it and ones who get miserable. Think round and you'll see I'm right.

  Margery Allingham

  Thinking, Men, Two

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• Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

  Laura Lippman

  Children, Parent

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• I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Sorry, Thinking, Mirrors

  "Art Out of Anything: Rauschenberg in Retrospect" by Michael Kimmelman, www.nytimes.com. December 23, 2005.

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• In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Grief, Winter, Youth

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• We also have people dying longer, we are able to keep people alive without much quality of life in many cases. We haven't done a great job of making healthspan match up with lifespan, which is both miserable and unbelievably costly - and frightening.

  Ken Dychtwald

  Life, Jobs, People

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• I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.

  Dorothea Dix

  Strong, Real, Men

  "Memorial To The Legislature of Massachusetts". Book by Dorothea L. Dix, 1843.

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• Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded by comparison: this paradox fuels equal parts of comedy and pathos. Never sentimental, at once corrosive and elegiac, House Mother Normal is a remarkable achievement.

  James Marcus

  Mother, Memories, Voice

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• Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Night, Sight

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• A lot of people depend on their mate or spouse to make them happy and those are the people that are the most miserable.

  Cindy Meehl

  People, Mates, Spouse

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• I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Validation, Source, Primaries

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

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• I think a lot of business students chase money and then they burn out. They have early retirements, not because they want to retire and chill... But because they hate their job and they are miserable. I don't chase money.

  Tyra Banks

  Retirement, Jobs, Hate

  "Model to Mogul and Beyond". Interview with Ty-Ron Mayes, westeastmag.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I've been in clubs. I don't like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people. It's not my idea of a good time. It's just such a miserable life.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Ideas, People, Drunk

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• I get sick of that old rationalization, "We're staying together because of the children." Kids couldn't be more miserable living with parents who can't stand each other. They're far better off if there's an honest, clean divorce.

  Johnny Carson

  Children, Kids, Divorce

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Good Man, Belief

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.39, Oxford University Press

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• If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Night, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1277, Manonmani Publishers

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• The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way
  forward but to dissolve the thoughts and feeling that make you miserable.
  You don't have to learn your destiny--you already know it; you just have to unlearn the thoughts that blind you to what you know.

  Martha Beck

  Stars, Destiny, Thinking

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny”, p.18, Rodale

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• If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.

  William Morris

  Animal, Men, Degradation

  May Morris, William Morris, Bernard Shaw (1936). “William Morris: Morris as a socialist. William Morris as I knew him, by Bernard Shaw”

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• For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Poet, Witness

  "Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron". Book by Thomas Medwin, 1823.

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• Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Beautiful, Pain, Love Life

  "The Images of Divine Things, The Shadows of Divine Things, The Language and Lessons of Nature". Notebook by Jonathan Edwards, "The Beauty of the World" (c.1725), 1948.

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• Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.

  Richard Cecil

  Eye, Dying, Events

  Richard Cecil (1825). “The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character”, p.262

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• You have to be a pretty miserable person to not enjoy making movies. It's something I always dreamed about. I do not take it for granted.

  Josh Duhamel

  Miserable Person, Granted, Enjoy

  "Josh Duhamel: It Doesn't Take Much To Make Me Cry". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. January 14, 2013.

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• When I used to play golf. It's a terrible miserable game. It's incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water...You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Writing, Golf

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those-in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can't escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Self, Hands, Giving

  "On Grief and Reason: Essays". Book by Joseph Brodsky, 1995.

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• Each and every one of us, at the end of the journey of life, will come face to face with either one or the other of two faces... And one of them, either the merciful face of Christ or the miserable face of Satan, will say, "Mine, mine." May we be Christ's!

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Journey, Two, May

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• Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

  William S. Burroughs

  Successful, Men, Intelligent

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