Miserable People Quotes - Page 2

• The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• Comedians a lot of times we're on the road, we're by our self. We come home to New York to our empty one-bedroom apartment, you know, and we need a place to go where you see a bunch of other miserable people sit around and eat a corned beef sandwich.

  Jeff Ross

  New York, Home, Self

  Source: www.npr.org

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• None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better.... I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything, and they're absolutely the most miserable people in the world. So it won't do anything for you unless you're a happy person and can have peace with yourself.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Happiness, Gratitude, People

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• We can never flee the misery that is within us.

  Arthur Golden

  Misery, Miserable

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• I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

  Arthur Golden

  Sad, Trying, Misery

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.106, Random House

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• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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• By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Happiness, Being Happy, Thinking

  "Words of the Prophet: Forget Yourself and Serve". New Era magazine, pp. 2-5, July 2006.

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• Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

  Boethius

  Happiness, Stress, Positivity

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Perfect Days, People

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• The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  People, Knows, Loses

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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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• The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.

  Corey Taylor

  Reading, People, Laughing

  "60 Seconds: Corey Taylor". "Metro" Interview, metro.co.uk. March 7, 2007.

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• There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

  Victor Hugo

  Class, Humanity, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• The Jews are the most miserable people on earth. They are plagued everywhere, and scattered about all countries, having no certain resting place. They sit as on a wheelbarrow, without a country, people or government... but they are rightly served, for seeing they refused have Christ and his gospel, instead of freedom they must have servitude.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Government, People

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• If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninteresting, boring people behind it.

  Michelle Forbes

  People, Cynical, Unhappy

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