Miserable Quotes - page 4

But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in. (Nigella Lawson)
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time. View quote
Edith Wharton
It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and cruel only through the action of insidious and oppressive laws. And I believe therefore that if man be given laws which harmonize with the dictates of nature and of his heart he will cease to be unhappy and corrupt. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
I was seventeen years old, a married woman without real responsibilities, miserable about my mixed-up emotions, afraid there was something awfully wrong with me because I didn't enjoy being a wife. Worst of all, I didn't have enough to do. View quote
Mary Martin
Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination. View quote
Laura Riding
Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections. View quote
António Lobo Antunes
I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. (Jane Austen)
She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry. View quote
Jane Austen
But to appear happy when I am so miserable - Oh! who can require it? View quote
Jane Austen
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. View quote
Francis Bacon
No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail to his good pleasure. If we put ourselves in such a frame of mind, then, whatever may happen to us, we shall never feel miserable or accuse God falsely because of our lot. View quote
John Calvin
If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick. View quote
John Steinbeck
There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals. View quote
Ali
There are only two categories of happy people in the material world: fools and transcendentalists. Fools are so oblivious that they manage to convince themselves they are happy in this material prison. Transcendentalists are happy because they can see above the material dualities, and know that their parole is at hand. Everyone else is essentially miserable. This is because calamity in the material world cannot be avoided, just as water cannot be avoided in the ocean. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle. View quote
Golda Meir
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other. (Anne Brontë)
I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it. View quote
Anne Brontë
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. View quote
Clare Boothe Luce
Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom. View quote
Kahlil Gibran