Miserable Quotes

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? (Diana, Princess of Wales)
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. View quote
Robert Anthony
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. View quote
William James
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. View quote
Jacopo Sannazaro
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. View quote
Joseph Conrad
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. View quote
James Tobin
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. (Woody Allen)
The truth will set you free - but first it will make you miserable. View quote
James A. Garfield
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. View quote
Agatha Christie
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. View quote
Rene Magritte
I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship. View quote
Graham Norton
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature. View quote
Graham Greene
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable. View quote
George Eliot
What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets. View quote
André Malraux
I fly from pleasure,' said the prince, 'because pleasure has ceased to please I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others. (Samuel Johnson)
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. View quote
Jane Goodall
A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. View quote
Frank McCourt
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty. View quote
Imelda Marcos