Miserable Quotes - Page 22

• I believe I am becoming pathetic. I'll go further, I believe that I am in love with a flower-growing, wood-carving quarryman/carpenter/pig farmer. In fact, I know I am. Perhaps tomorrow I will become entirely miserable at the thought that he doesn't love me back - may, even, care for Remy- but at this precise moment I am succumbing to euphoria. My head and stomach feel quite odd.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Believe, Flower, Pigs

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.210, A&C Black

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• Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Religious, People

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.534, e-artnow

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• Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf's evil in loco parentis ways.

  Daniel Handler

  Evil, House, Olaf

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• It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

  Virginia Woolf

  Feelings, Machines, Critical Moments

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1120, Delphi Classics

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• Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Long, Speak, Pity

  Edgar Allan Poe (2010). “Mystery Tales”, p.33, Giunti Editore

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• Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality... through faith. Savage force is faith's obedient servant. Violence on an apocalyptic scale can only be born of faith because reason, by its very nature, disarms senseless cruelty. Only faith thinks to justify it.

  Terry Goodkind

  Thinking, Ideas, Understanding

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Confessor”, p.478, Head of Zeus

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• I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mistake, Boys, Thinking

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.5058, Delphi Classics

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• Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

  John Boyne

  Sitting, Pajamas, Sitting Around

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• When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

  Frank McCourt

  Childhood, Catholic, Ordinary

  Angela's Ashes: A Memoir ch. 1 (1996)

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• None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Shadow, Said

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• Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked. "Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of that. I suppose it does. What other pleasure can a creature have whose life consists of making everyone else miserable?

  Nancy Farmer

  Dragons, Doe, Pleasure

  Nancy Farmer (2013). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when I walked in the door and saw she was not there. Twice, however, I'd felt the same sinking feeling when she was.

  Lorrie Moore

  Doors, Sinking Feeling, Missing

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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• And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Pride, Vanity

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• Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food.

  Paul Brunton

  Spiritual, Men, Half

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Pt. 1 Healing of the Self; Pt. 2 the Negatives”, Larson Publication

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• Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

  Simone Elkeles

  Happiness, People, Expectations

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• ...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive. Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes or lives less miserable so that we might be more kind-well, then, lets have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wall, Might, Hanging On

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• We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Resentment

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.206, Penguin

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• I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.

  Susane Colasanti

  Normal

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.32, Penguin

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• What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Thinking, Mind, Body

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.104, Xist Publishing

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• Have you ever noticed how when you're happy, time seems to pass by fast, while when you're miserable it goes real slow? Life would have been a blink with you whether it lasted a millennium or a month.

  Lynsay Sands

  Real, Happy Times, Months

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• My name is Zia Rashid.” She tilted her head as if listening. Right on cue, the entire building rumbled. Dust sprinkled from the ceiling, and the slithering sounds of scorpion doubled in volume behind us. “And right now,” Zia continued, sounding a bit disappointed, “I must save your miserable lives.

  Rick Riordan

  Dust, Names, Listening

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• Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41)

  Stephen Dobyns

  Attention, Helping, Silent

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• At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

  David Sedaris

  Technology, Grieving, Tree

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who cares, no big deal, I want MORE." (How could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs?)

  John Bytheway

  Thinking, Mermaid, Twenties

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• I had learned from my reading that you can do really awful things when you are bored, things that are bound to make you miserable. In fact, you do them in order to become miserable, so you won't have to be bored anymore.

  Sam Savage

  Reading, Order, Bored

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