Miserable Quotes - Page 17

• I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.

  Matt Groening

  Judging, Pay, Used

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• I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

  Salma Hayek

  Children, Thinking, Married

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• I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

  James Hillman

  Depression, Dysfunction, Cold

  "The Soul Of Winter: A Call To Deepen" by Dr. Judith Rich, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2009.

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• I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

  James Hillman

  Thinking, Economics, Economic

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.

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• My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

  Chris Isaak

  Writing, Advice, Great Music

  "Chris Isaak: 'My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck!'". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

  Franz Kafka

  Kissing, Night, Air

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.94, Schocken

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• If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Loss, Ideas, Long

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• The vexing thing about human behavior is that when we say we know we should do something, we really and truly do know it. It's hard to be 50 lbs. overweight or smoke a pack a day or feel miserable every moment you spend at work and not understand in a deep and primal way that change is in order - and that in some cases it could even save your life.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Order, Way, Moments

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• People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Thinking, People, Architecture

  "From Bauhaus to Koolhaas". Interview with Katrina Heron, www.wired.com. July 1, 1996.

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• We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Energy, States, Should

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• For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Years, Crowds, Lasts

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• Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Irreparable Harm, Shining, Months

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• When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.

  Amy Lee

  Want

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• You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Jobs, Insecure, Order

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• If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

  Mia Maestro

  Enjoy Life, Strict, Ifs

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• In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

  David Mamet

  Television, Evening, Language

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

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• Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

  Thomas Mann

  Levels, Hysterical, Broke

  Thomas Mann (1999). “Death in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and Other Writings”, p.317, A&C Black

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• I want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible genes. I want to hear from the geek girl, the forgotten girl, the invisible girl and the miserable girl.

  Shirley Manson

  Girl, Blessed, Looks

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• I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

  Dan Marino

  Girl, Sports, Being Yourself

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• I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?

  Jenny McCarthy

  Fun, Stress, Worry

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• If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

  Joyce Meyer

  Happy, Keys, Selfishness

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• Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

  Joyce Meyer

  Confused, Simple, Men

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• Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Children, Years

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• When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

  Joyce Meyer

  Blessing, Thinking, Talking

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