Quotes 41 till 60 of 75.
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My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.
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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
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No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
De Consolatione Philosophia Book II, section 4, line 64 -
Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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The drafts from the regiments at Ticonderoga are a miserable set; indeed the men on board the fleet, in general, are not equal to half their number of good men.
Letter to General Gates (21 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5 -
The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.
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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
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The last I heard of the young man in question, he was trying to eke out a miserable existence as a book agent while he was looking about for a position somewhere with the Government as a janitor or for some other equally humble occupation.
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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
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The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
A Treatise on Parents and Children (1910) -
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
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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.
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