Miserable Quotes - Page 27

• I GO DOWN TO THE SHORE I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall— what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Moving, Lovely Voice

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Nov 07, 2014

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• We all make mistakes. Sometimes I think the only point of our miserable lives is simply to learn how to live with the consequences of the bad decisions we´ve made.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mistake, Thinking, Decision

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.681, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Ugly

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• We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.

  Sarah Waters

  Sweet, Believe, Oysters

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• As reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought I was utterly and completely miserable, I was nevertheless, and nearly all the time, extremely happy. That gave me something to think about. The discovery was not a pleasant one. It seemed to me that I was losing a great deal. I asked myself, wasn't I sad, hadn't I felt my life breaking up? Yes, that had been true; but each minute, when I stayed without moving in a corner of the room, the cool of the night and the stability of the ground made me breathe and rest on gladness.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Memories, Moving, Night

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• Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

  Victor Hugo

  Two, Spoons, Jean Valjean

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• So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was "the man", the envy of every other guy in our school. Buddy, I was miserable." -Bryce Loski

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Girl, School, Men

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• You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

  David Levithan

  Giving Up, Way, Slipping

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• I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Lovely, Saws, Causes

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.87

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• How could you have guessed?” Miserable though Will was, he felt free, as if a heavy burden had been displaced from him. “I did all I could to hide and deny it. You—you never hid your feelings. Looking back, it was clear and plain, and yet I never saw it. I was astonished when Tessa told me that you were engaged. You’ve always been the source in my life of such good things, James. I never thought you would be the source of pain, and so, wrongly, I never thought of your feelings at all. And that is why I was so blind.

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Feelings, Would Be

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Love Is, Rosie, Nurture

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

  A. A. Milne

  Clever, Silly, Book

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.101, Egmont UK

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• When you read my texts, you saw a curt, miserable git. And you told me so. Maybe you're right. But you know what I saw when I read yours? - Sam No. And I don't want to know. - Poppy I saw a girl who races to help others but doesn't help herself. And right now you need to help yourself. No one should walk up the aisle feeling inferior or in a different league or trying to be something they're not. - Sam

  Sophie Kinsella

  Girl, Helping Others, Race

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• People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

  Franz Kafka

  People, Adjectives, Labels

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• I am malicious because I am miserable

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Malicious

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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• If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better in the morning. This, of course, is utter nonsense, because a miserable experience remains a miserable experience even on the loveliest of morning.

  Daniel Handler

  Morning, Feel Better, Nonsense

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• On our own we simply don't know how to get things done the same way you do things. But, like everyone else, we want to do the best we possibly can. When we sense you've given up on us, it makes us feel miserable. So please keep helping us, through to the end.

  Naoki Higashida

  Done, Want, Way

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• If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable.

  Dale Carnegie

  Positive, Attitude, Thinking

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.

  Sienna Miller

  Positive, London, Upbeat

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• Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Time, Should Have, Age

  Michel de Montaigne (1603). “Essayes”, p.246

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• Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

  Andy Warhol

  Change, Break Up, Years

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Retirement, Business

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• I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Depression, Men, Race

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• The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. Our thoughts become shackled, our emotions are chained, the will is almost paralyzed. But when we show mercy, all of these bonds are broken, and we enter into a joyful liberty that frees us to share God's love with others.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Forgiveness, Broken, Liberty

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• Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

  Erik Satie

  God, May

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