Miserable Quotes - Page 21

• You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Giving Up, World, Might

  "Philadelphia Has A Brotherly Love Affair With Sweats". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. October 12, 2012.

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• In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Depression, Believe

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• Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Devil, Arms, Vengeance

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.78

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• I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Goodbye, Book, Night

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• Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.

  Doris Lessing

  Two, People, Depth

  Doris Lessing (1973). “The Grass is Singing”, p.67, Heinemann

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• Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?

  Zadie Smith

  Would Be, Said, Knows

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• On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right.

  Sharon Creech

  Night, Might, Pandora's Box

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• We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.

  Wilhelm Reich

  People, Community, Healthy

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• I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Monsters, Creation, Frankenstein's Monster

  Frankenstein ch. 5 (1818)

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• Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lying, Intelligent, Found Happiness

  ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1970). “ISLANDS IN THE STREAM”

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• One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

  Irving Stone

  Artist, Would Be, Should

  Irving Stone (1961). “the Agony and the Ecstasy”

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• But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurvivable trust. It just saved your miserable life, that questionable show of thought, my itchy-witch.' Al’s smile shifted, becoming lighter. 'And now you will live to possibly regret it.

  Kim Harrison

  Clever, Regret, Als

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• She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Fear, Prayer, Heart

  Marilynne Robinson (2008). “Home: A Novel”, p.69, Macmillan

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• I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.

  Anne Rice

  Thinking, Satisfaction, Feels

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.1083, Ballantine Books

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• Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Ridiculous, Brothers Karamazov

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

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• Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes. He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. We came not into this life by exile, but we came as innocent creatures of God, to learn how to worship the holy and eternal spirit and seek the hidden secrets within ourselves from the beauty of life.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Teaching, Men

  "Spirits Rebellious". Book by Kahlil Gibran. Chapter "Khalil The Heretic", part 3, 1908.

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• Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom.

  Khalil Gibran

  Country, Strong, Heaven

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers. Therefore there are only couriers who hurry about the world, shouting to each other - since there are no kings - messages that have become meaningless. They would like to put an end to this miserable life of theirs but they dare not because of their oaths of service.

  Franz Kafka

  Kings, Children, Choices

  Franz Kafka (1961). “Parables and paradoxes: in German and English”

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• A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Sweet, Blood

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• And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.

  Alyson Noel

  Sober, Evermore

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Children, Philosophy, Useless

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about it. I'm not going to put on the sweet relative act. I know what you've done to Jim and how you've made him miserable all his life. I'm going to protect him against you. I'll put you in your place. I'm Mrs. Taggart. I'm the woman in this family now.' 'That's quite all right,' said Dagny. 'I'm the man.

  Ayn Rand

  Sweet, Men, Voice

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.303, Hamilton Books

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• You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Children, Simple

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• Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for.

  Joseph Heller

  Names, Two, Being Thankful

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Men, Lasts, Endeavor

  Desiderius Erasmus (2012). “In Praise of Folly”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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