Miserable Quotes - Page 18

• I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God's Word that showed me I wasn't living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Eye, Childhood

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• A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

  John Stuart Mill

  Freedom, War, Military

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• To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

  John Milton

  Able, Bears, Blind

  John Milton, George Burnett (1809). “The Prose Works of John Milton: Tenure of the magistrate (continued)”, p.357

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• The people who get more fame, who get more money, more often than not they are miserable, insecure and on anti-depressants. It's strange that everyone keeps buying into this idea that more success is good, that more fame is good, that more money is good. Yet, we look at the people who have more success, more fame, more money and they're miserable.

  Moby

  Insecure, Ideas, People

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• Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

  Jim Morrison

  Cynical, Hatred, Emotion

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• My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try not to make somebody else's life miserable because you are.

  Joe Nichols

  Bullying, Kids, Trying

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• Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

  Chuck Norris

  America, People, Individual

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• I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

  Graham Norton

  Unhappy

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• Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.

  Kevin O'Leary

  War, Team, Winning

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• I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

  Ben Okri

  Homeless, Wit, Rough

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• The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

  Matthew Perry

  Cheer, Couple, Keys

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• We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?

  Steven Pinker

  Heaven, Fleas, Dry

  "Steven Pinker: the mind reader". www.theguardian.com. November 5, 1999.

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• Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.

  Paula Poundstone

  Home, Cat, Florida

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• From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

  Dennis Prager

  Children, Teenage, Years

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• Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

  Jake Roberts

  Good Day, Screw Ups, Start The Day

  "Jake "The Snake" Roberts Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 18, 2003.

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• Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Gay

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• Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

  Chris Rock

  People, Funny Marriage, Married

  "Everybody loves Chris". Interview with Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2008.

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• Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

  Salman Rushdie

  Inches, Persons

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• At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.

  Jill Scott

  Jobs, Aunt, House

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• We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.

  Rob Sheffield

  Ideas, Musical, Ratios

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• But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Tree, Soul, Humanity

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus”

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• Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

  Paul Simon

  Guitar, Band, Rehearsal

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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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• Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.

  Arthur Smith

  Awards, Listening, Radio

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• The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

  Todd Solondz

  Thinking, Skills, Different

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