Quotes with miserable

  • The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
  • Having a constant productive anxiety doesn't mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right.
  • Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
  • If an executive producer has written a certain line, and an actress says it, and it's not very funny, you don't dare go to them and say, 'I don't like this,' because it will make your life miserable.
  • When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • William James There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Francis Bacon A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • John Stuart Mill A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Hesiod Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Baltasar Gracian Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Wayne Dyer Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Bob Schieffer But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Mark Twain Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Don Marquis Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Carol Berg For the 'Rai-kirah' books, I began with the image of Aleksander riding the great wastelands, and that quickly morphed into the desert. Because I wanted my slave market cold and miserable, I chose to set the opening scene in the empire's summer capital in the mountains.
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, 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.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas Traherne Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Cass Sunstein Having a constant productive anxiety doesn't mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Queen Victoria 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
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Agatha Christie I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
    Source: An Autobiography (1977)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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