Miserable Quotes - Page 35

• If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.

  John Steinbeck

  Simple, Giving, Sick

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• Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to reach out to a sphere of light, beauty, truth, love, and power.

  Paul Brunton

  Acceptance, Light, Focus

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Meditation. The body”

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• Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth, Doors, Rags

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• No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

  Claudius

  Persons, Can Do

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• But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they live in and to watch them suffer, alone and miserable, trying to live in my world for a change!

  Daniel Clowes

  Laughing, Suffering, Trying

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• If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever.

  Thomas Brooks

  Strong, Heart, Men

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• I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It’s certainly the most miserable state to be in but it’s also tremendously gratifying, really—rage feels justified. And it’s an excellent substitute for action. Why would you want to sacrifice rage to go about the long, difficult, dreary business of making something more tolerable?

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Sacrifice, Long, Experts

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• There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.

  Brad Meltzer

  Character, Work Out, Plot

  "Workouts inspire novelist: 'No better place to plot the death of a character'". Interview with David Raterman, articles.sun-sentinel.com. February 11, 2013.

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• One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.

  Nancy Mitford

  Paris, Joy, Unhappy

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.146, Vintage

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• If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live through the normal struggles of life. But if you remember that God promised we would be pilgrims and this world may feel more like a desert or even a prison, you might find your life surprisingly happy.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Stars, Struggle, Thinking

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• The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell.

  Steven Pressfield

  Baby, War, Marine

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.68, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• If you want to be miserable, think of yourself.  If you want to be happy, think of others.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Thinking, Want, Think Of You

  Sakyong Mipham (2012). “Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind”, p.124, Harmony

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• You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

  Ina Garten

  Food, Entrepreneur, Cookies

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• I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.

  Trent Reznor

  Wanted

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• I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.

  Trent Reznor

  Successful, Goal, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, People, Bloody

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• They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.

  Lester Bangs

  Dog, Hero, Idols

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.253, Anchor

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are
  created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
  inalienable rights; that among these are life, and the right to
  make that of another miserable by thrusting upon him an
  incalculable quantity of acquaintances; liberty, particularly the
  liberty to introduce persons to one another without first
  ascertaining if they are not already acquainted as enemies; and
  the pursuit of another's happiness with a running pack of
  strangers.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Running, Men, Rights

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.115, 谷月社

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• Miserable people love to make other people miserable. I don't hate them, I just feel sorry for them.

  Brandi Glanville

  Sorry, Hate, People

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• A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Inspiring, Leadership, Jobs

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees)”, p.94, John Wiley & Sons

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• Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.

  Walter Mischel

  Way, Emotion, Melancholy

  "Learning How to Exert Self-Control" by Pamela Druckerman, www.nytimes.com. September 12, 2014.

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• I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.

  Jon Hamm

  Rain, Rabbits, Roommate

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• To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.

  Joseph Priestley

  Happiness, Self, Justice

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• A man who knows a thing, recognizes a given danger, and sees with his own eyes the possibility of a remedy, damned well has the duty and the obligation not to work 'silently', but to stand up openly against the evil and for its cure. If he does not do so then he is a faithless, miserable weakling who fails either from cowardice or from laziness and incompetence....Every last agitator who possesses the courage to defend his opinions with manly forth-rightness, standing on a tavern table among his adversaries, accomplishes more than a thousand of these lying, treacherous sneaks.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Lying, Eye, Men

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• The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.

  Jane Goodall

  Eye, Speaks Out, Prison

  Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall (1999). “Jane Goodall: 40 years at Gombe : a tribute to four decades of wildlife research, education, and conservation”, Stewart, Tabori and Chang

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