Miserable Quotes - Page 2

• Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

  Carrie Snow

  Funny, Men, Married

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• 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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• Money can't buy happiness—but it can buy beer.

  Gary Reilly

  Money, Beer, Wealth And Happiness

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• For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

  Lev Grossman

  Inspirational, Real, Character

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.264, Penguin

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• Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

  Victor Hugo

  Clouds, Tables, Elude

  "Les Misérables". Book by Victor Hugo, Book III, 1862.

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• What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

  Andre Malraux

  Men, Keeping Secrets, Littles

  ANDRE MALRAUX (1968). “ANTI-MEMOIRS”

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• I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Depression, Men, Cheerful

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.69, Library of America

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• If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Reality, Self

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• There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Life, Motivational, Wisdom

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• I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

  Haim Ginott

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

  Princess Diana

  Sadness, Poverty, Misery

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• Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

  Janis Joplin

  Music, Sadness, Singers

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• Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Life, Money, Comfortable

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• But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

  John Milton

  Moving, Misery, Graves

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.369

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• So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Long, Political

  Ends and Means (1937) ch. 8

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• No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

  Adam Smith

  Happiness, Equality, Society

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.33

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• . . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Childhood, Mind, Certain

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.232, Powell Publications, LLC

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• It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.

  Harvey Mackay

  Fire, People, Classroom

  Harvey Mackay (2007). “Fired Up!: How the Best of the Best Survived and Thrived After Getting the Boot”, p.216, Ballantine Books

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• He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

  Philip Neri

  Love, God, Christian

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• The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

  Matt Chandler

  World, This World

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• Life is too short to be miserable.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Life Is

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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

  Arthur Golden

  Misery, Miserable People

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• We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves. If we are miserable, we say, "Oh, the world is a devil's world." We curse others and say, "What infatuated fools!" But why should we be in such a world, if we really are so good? If this is a devil's world, we must be devils also; why else should we be here? "Oh, the people of the world are so selfish!" True enough; but why should we be found in that company, if we be better? Just think of that.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Selfish, Thinking, People

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.480, Manonmani Publishers

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• try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Trying, Enough, Enjoy

  Marilyn Monroe (2010). “Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters”, p.153, Macmillan

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• The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

  James A. Garfield

  Teacher, Encouragement, Strong Women

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