Miserable Quotes - Page 29

• Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that, I used to think, 'I'm being fake,' but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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

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• I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable...

  Kate Upton

  Acceptance, Enjoy Life, Want

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

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• Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even in hell, in spite of their certain knowledge and contemplation of the absolute truth; there are some fearful ones who have given themselves over to Satan and his proud spirit entirely. For such, hell is voluntary and ever consuming; they are tortured by their own choice. For they have cursed themselves, cursing God and life. And they will burn in the fire of their own wrath forever and yearn for death and annihilation. But they will not attain to death.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suicide, Believe, Suicidal

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• If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Sports, Coaching

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• I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry over your shots. Take the case of a chip shot, for instance. If you're really wretched, you don't care where the ball is going and so you don't raise your head to see. Grief automatically prevents pressing and over-swinging. Look at the top-notchers. Have you ever seen a happy pro?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Grief, Golf, Games

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• I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

  Gloria Naylor

  Life, Believe, Grieving

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Bailey's Cafe: A Novel”, p.147, Open Road Media

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• A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spiritual, Believe, Numbers

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.39, 北戴河出版

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• It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

  George Eliot

  World, Poverty, Helping

  "Silas Marner".

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• In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, People, Growing

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• As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.

  Rumer Godden

  Being Sad, Age, Pieces

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• God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; he will set them above their betters.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ego, Sanctuary, Arms

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• Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such a miserable failure. You put out a big pot of money and all you do is fight over it. Then you run out of money and you run out of troops.

  Cesar Chavez

  Running, War, Fighting

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.70, Texas A&M University Press

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• Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sarcastic, Eggs, White

  Letter to Edward Garnett, 3 July 1912, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 1, p. 134

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• What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Life, Gratitude, Sadness

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays”, p.50, Grove Press

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• Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Generosity, Misery

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• That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

  Plautus

  Sadness, Misery, Cursed

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• The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

  Cornelius Nepos

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sadness

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• The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable.

  Rajneesh

  Hurt, Jealous, Giving

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• I think if two people love each other, then what the hell? I think that everyone should have the chance to be equally miserable, if they want. It's the new tolerant me!

  Eminem

  Gay, Thinking, Should Have

  "The Real Marshall Mathers" by Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. June 16, 2010.

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  People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Teenage, Crazy, Fall

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

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• Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.

  Homer

  Sadness, Flames, Land

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• You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey.

  Esther Hicks

  Journey, Happy Endings

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• A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Honesty, Long, Solitude

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• His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

  Queen Victoria

  Husband, Soul, World

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• Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.

  Samuel Adams

  Perseverance, Rights, Suffering

  Essay in The Boston Gazette under the pseudonym "Candidus", October 14, 1771.

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