Miserable Life Quotes - Page 2

• I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.

  Elizabeth I

  Reading, Together, Gathering

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• From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

  Teresa of Avila

  Night, Heaven, Looks

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• Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short.

  Amber Benson

  Life Is Short, House, Sitting

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• Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable.
  [Fr., La plupart des hommes emploient la premiere part vie a rendre l'autre miserable.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Men, Firsts

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• But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Pigs, Majority

  "Chew the Right Thing". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2006.

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• Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Cheer, True Friend

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 23, 2011

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• But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurvivable trust. It just saved your miserable life, that questionable show of thought, my itchy-witch.' Al’s smile shifted, becoming lighter. 'And now you will live to possibly regret it.

  Kim Harrison

  Clever, Regret, Als

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• Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Men, Use

  "Of Man". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ... Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal.

  Ron Reagan

  Animal, Opportunity, Pigs

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• You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.

  John Heilemann

  Running, Lonely, Home

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• I am at a loss to figure out how to rid my e-mail of those bottom-feeders of the electronic world, the generators of spam.... If I were Emperor of the World, I would lock all the spammers in a room and force them to watch nothing but TV commercials for the rest of their miserable lives, and I would condemn the people who respond to spammers to do nothing but clean the toilets in this room.

  Richard Turner

  Loss, People, Mail

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• Whatever you remember, or feel, you need to know that whatever they were they did one worthwhile thing in their miserable lives. And that was you. Whatever they were, they couldn't destroy that. They couldn't stop you from becoming.

  Nora Roberts

  Healing, Worthwhile Things, Becoming

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• It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

  William Wyler

  Morning, Fog, Six

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

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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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• The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

  Peter Abelard

  Passion, Men, Scripture

  Orlando Williams Wight, Peter Abelard, Héloïse, Alphonse de Lamartine (1861). “Lives and Letters of Abelard and Heloise”, p.209

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