Miserable Quotes

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  Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 12, 2010

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• A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Happy, Philosophical

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

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• Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

  Daniel Handler

  Sad, People, Want

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• There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

  William James

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Sadness

  Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 1, ch. 4

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• Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

  Zhang Yimou

  Time, Memories, People

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• Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Mistake, Self

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.597, Xist Publishing

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• A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Lost, Spending

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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 trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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  Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Inspiring, Travel, Thinking

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• The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 2

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• Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mind, Misery, Given

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• How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?

  Peter De Vries

  Pairs, Mankind

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Reuben, Reuben: A Novel”, p.313, University of Chicago Press

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• A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, Goal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time - time disappears.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Needs, Misery

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• The only person in all the world who can give you pleasure, or deny it, is yourself. No matter how much we love someone, the decision to experience pleasure, and to make room for it in our lives, is an internal one. If you are resistant, you could be around the most joyous people in the world and be miserable.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Happiness, People, Giving

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• The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Names

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2091, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are

  Germany Kent

  Care, Might, Where You Are

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• Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.

  Zig Ziglar

  Hate, Happy Life, People

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 11, 2013

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• Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Men, Fool

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  Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  May

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.57, Hamilton Books

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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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• 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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• The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.

  Victor Hugo

  Gratitude, Men, Joy

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• The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.

  Victor Hugo

  Race, Law, Hatred

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.82, Modern Library

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