Miserable Quotes - Page 26

• We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work that’s finished is at least finished. It may be poor, but it exists, like the miserable plant in the lone flowerpot of my neighbour who’s crippled. That plant is her happiness, and sometimes it’s even mine. What I write, bad as it is, may provide some hurt or sad soul a few moments of distraction from something worse. That’s enough for me, or it isn’t enough, but it serves some purpose, and so it is with all of life.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hurt, Writing, Soul

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• Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles, September 2000.

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• Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back.

  Nora Roberts

  Coffee, Views, Three

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.754, Penguin

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• And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, Knowing, House

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.301

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• So, you're telling me that no matter what, you can't be happy? Well, darling, it's no wonder you're miserable. It's what you want...So then try (to be happy).

  Elizabeth Scott

  Trying, Want, Matter

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• Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.

  Patrick deWitt

  Rooms

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.73, Granta Books

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• If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.

  David Mitchell

  Mean, Adversity, Purpose

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.188, Random House

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• I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Dies, Ifs

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Women”, p.310, Xist Publishing

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• Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

  George Orwell

  Faces, Our Lives

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell and Politics”, p.281, Penguin UK

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• Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

  Robert Burton

  Mind, Rich, Poor

  Robert Burton (1857). “The Anatomy of melancholy”, p.366

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• And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

  Douglas Adams

  Mean, People, Watches

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts".

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• You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable.

  Anne Rice

  Love You, Want, Needs

  Anne Rice (2003). “Blood Canticle”, Knopf Canada

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• ...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable.

  Graham Greene

  Onions, Individual, Make Me Happy

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• (...) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, that's what he was for doing that thing to that woman. Come down out of the skies, you God, come on down and I'll hammer your face all over the city of Los Angeles, you miserable unpardonable prankster. If it wasn't for you, this woman would not have been so maimed, and neither would the world, (...)

  John Fante

  Letting Go, Dirty, Sky

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• Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident of life.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Heart, Reality, Luck

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.122, Princeton University Press

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• In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what happens if I can't forgive myself for making that choice? And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? What am I supposed to do? Conclusion: It'd be best if I'm destroyed. The best thing is for me just to vanish.

  Natsuo Kirino

  Reality, Order, People

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• The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Way, Very Happy

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.12, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.

  Ann Brashares

  Feel Better, Feelings, Feels

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.347, Delacorte Press

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• A miserable collection of little secrets, that's all any of us is. 

  Guillaume Musso

  Secret, Littles, Collections

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• If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life.

  Joan Bauer

  Worry, Littles, Little Things

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• I think we'll always miss our parents. But I think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. After all, they wouldn't want us to be miserable.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, Parent, Missing

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• You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.

  Richard Siken

  Joy, Sound, Mouths

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• I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? ...They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.

  Carson McCullers

  Falling In Love, Men, Clouds

  Carson McCullers (2012). “The Ballad of the Sad Café”, p.133, Penguin UK

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• Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.

  Mitch Albom

  New Year, Night, Years

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• "Watch it." he said at last. "I can make your life miserable." I gave him an icy smile. "You already have, and that's why i've got the advantage. You've done your worst - but you haven't seen what i can do yet."

  Richelle Mead

  Watches, Done, Icy

  "Bloodlines". Book by Richelle Mead, August 23, 2011.

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