Miserable Quotes - Page 37

• Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

  Johann Arndt

  Men, Naked, Christ

  Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.52

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• No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

  David Starr Jordan

  David Starr Jordan (1983). “The strength of being clean: the physiological laws governing the pursuit of happiness ; The philosophy of hope : understanding the process by which hope displaces despair : an owners manual to the human soul”

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• This miserable way
  is taken by the sorry souls of those
  who lived without disgrace and without praise.
  They now commingle with the coward angels,
  the company of those who were not rebels
  nor faithful to their God, but stood apart.
  The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened,
  have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them -
  even the wicked cannot glory in them.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sorry, Taken, Angel

  Dante Alighieri, “Inferno Canto 03”

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• People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

  Joseph Butler

  People, Might, Affection

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a lot easier to like people when they can't make life miserable for you anymore.

  Carol Kendall

  People, Liking Someone, Easier

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• A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked.... For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found sad. One day they asked him, 'What is the secret of your happiness?' He said, 'There is no secret. Every morning when I wake up, I meditate for five minutes and I say to myself, 'Listen, now there are two possibilities: you can be miserable, or you can be blissful. Choose.' And I always choose to be blissful.'

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Morning, Years

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• All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned, and there are people who remain miserable even when they are living in marble palaces. It all depends on you.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, People, Alternatives

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• If you are happy, you are happy; nobody asks you why you are happy. Yes, if you are miserable, a question is relevant. If you are miserable, somebody can ask why you are miserable, and the question is relevant - because misery is against nature, something wrong is happening. When you are happy, nobody asks you why you are happy, except for a few neurotics. There are such people; I cannot deny the possibility.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, People, Misery

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• When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become extraordinary. Nothing is special in being happy - trees are happy, birds are happy, animals are happy, children are happy. What is special in that? It is just the usual thing in existence. Existence is made of the stuff called happiness. Just look! - can't you see these trees?...so happy. Can't you see the birds singing?...so happily. Happiness has nothing special in it. Happiness is a very ordinary thing.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Children, Animal

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• Misery makes you special. Misery makes you more egoistic. A miserable man can have a more concentrated ego than a happy man. A happy man really cannot have the ego, because a person becomes happy only when there is no ego. The more egoless, the more happy; the more happy, the more egoless. You dissolve into happiness. You cannot exist together with happiness; you exist only when there is misery. In happiness there is dissolution.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Men, Ego

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• I am not against money - remember. Don't misinterpret me: I am not against money. I am not against anything. Money is a means. If you are happy and you have money, you will become more happy. If you are unhappy and you have money, you will become more unhappy because what will you do with your money? Your money will enhance your pattern, whatsoever it is. If you are miserable and you have power, what will you do with your power? You will poison yourself more with your power, you will become more miserable.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Mean, Unhappy

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• Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness is sin, only to be miserable is sin. To be happy is virtue because a happy person will not create unhappiness for others. Only a happy person can be a ground for others' happiness.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Real, Sadness

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• Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits

  Jared Diamond

  Love, Beautiful, Sexy

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• Don't criticize something you know nothing about. It only brings people down and makes everyone miserable.

  Laura Hall

  People, Feelings, Feeling Sad

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• When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.

  Kay Arthur

  Pleasing Others, Contentment, Able

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• I had a mink, and I had money and I was miserable.

  Kay Arthur

  Mink

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• Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Men, Use

  "Of Man". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should be a boy for the sixth part of his life; when a twelfth was added, his cheeks acquired a beard; He kindled for him the light of marriage after a seventh, and in the fifth year after his marriage He granted him a son. Alas! late-begotten and miserable child, when he had reached the measure of half his father's life, the chill grave took him. After consoling his grief by this science of numbers for four years, he reached the end of his life.

  Diophantus

  Life, Children, Father

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• Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, People, Ego

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• The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not only study, it is also practice which makes man perfect. If someone tells me that a certain person is miserable or wretched or distressed, my answer will be that he is out of tune.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Men, Study Life, Order

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Smiling Forehead”, Library of Alexandria

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• Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.

  T. H. White

  Beautiful, Simple, Would Be

  T. H. White (1983). “The Maharajah and Other Stories”, Berkley

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• I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Life, Acne, Bedroom

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• I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

  John Frusciante

  Real, Thankfulness, Energy

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• Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

  Jacopo Sannazaro

  Men, Thinking

  Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, "Mind", 1922.

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• You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Motivational, Driven

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