Miserable Life Quotes

• Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Humor

  "Fictional character: Alvy Singer". "Annie Hall", www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.

  Teresa of Avila

  Life, Doe, Miserable

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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• We all make mistakes. Sometimes I think the only point of our miserable lives is simply to learn how to live with the consequences of the bad decisions we´ve made.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mistake, Thinking, Decision

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.681, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Numbers, Suffering

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• Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

  Federico Fellini

  Life Is, Miserable, Existence

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• The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, People, Attention

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• Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fall, Light, Grumbling

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.

  Chris Isaak

  Thinking, People, Lucky

  "Chris Isaak is a 'Lucky' new man". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. March 4, 2009.

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• He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.

  Harry Kalas

  Funny, Life, Change

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• Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

  Plutarch

  Wickedness, Miserable, Wonderful

  Plutarch (1951). “Selected Lives and Essays”

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• I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

  Bill Burr

  Thinking, Misery, Miserable

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• Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Sleep, Novelists

  Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”

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• If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life.

  Joan Bauer

  Worry, Littles, Little Things

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• Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,” Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. “I thought it was the perfect plan... a bluff... Voldemort would be sure to come after me, would never dream they’d use a weak, talentless thing like you... It must have been the finest moment of your miserable life, telling Voldemort you could hand him the Potters.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Hands, Perfect

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• People are living such miserable lives economically. They want the escape. They want the fantasy. They'd love the dream of being king for a day or queen for a day.

  Robin Leach

  Dream, Kings, Queens

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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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, Miserable

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• To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ignorance, Government, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.369

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• There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig - an animal easily as intelligent as a dog - that becomes the Christmas ham.

  Michael Pollan

  Dog, Intelligent, Compassion

  "An Animal's Place" by Michael Pollan, www.nytimes.com. November 10, 2002.

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• I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

  Sonya Hartnett

  People, Miserable, Happens

  Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers. Therefore there are only couriers who hurry about the world, shouting to each other - since there are no kings - messages that have become meaningless. They would like to put an end to this miserable life of theirs but they dare not because of their oaths of service.

  Franz Kafka

  Kings, Children, Choices

  Franz Kafka (1961). “Parables and paradoxes: in German and English”

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• My name is Zia Rashid.” She tilted her head as if listening. Right on cue, the entire building rumbled. Dust sprinkled from the ceiling, and the slithering sounds of scorpion doubled in volume behind us. “And right now,” Zia continued, sounding a bit disappointed, “I must save your miserable lives.

  Rick Riordan

  Dust, Names, Listening

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• I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of deathamong Americans. What you don't know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright's character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.

  Ishmael Reed

  Education, Hurt, Cancer

  Ishmael Reed (1988). “Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper”, Scribner

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• If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.

  David Hume

  Life, Death, Reflection

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.683, Delphi Classics

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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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• He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

  David Frost

  Psychology, Miserable, Used

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