Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

What is more miserable than discontent?

We're going to McDonald's. We had a miserable day.

Billy Collins

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

Brendan Behan

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

Ben Okri

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

Edward Abbey

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.

Robert Holden

Many people are out without shelter. It was miserable to start with but with this things are only going to get worse.

We set a miserable tone from the start.

Jane Austen

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

Al Yankovic

Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

Ambrose Bierce

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Donald Ray Pollock

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

Claudius

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

David Starr Jordan

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

Darren Johnson

Choosing to be miserable is an option, but not one I recommend.

Carl Jung

And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.

Benny Hill

Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?

Michael Young

It was the most miserable part of any time I've been here.

Ernest Hemingway

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

George Whitefield

If you know Christ and him crucified, you know enough to make you happy, supposing you know nothing else. And without this, all your other knowledge cannot keep you from being everlastingly miserable.

Franz Kafka

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

Josh Duhamel

You have to be a pretty miserable person to not enjoy making movies. It's something I always dreamed about. I do not take it for granted.

Joe Girardi

I know it's not as quickly as he would like. I noticed the other day he was a little miserable that it didn't respond the way he would have liked.

Kris Benson

I know it's going to be a miserable night. It's already been a miserable night. But what can we do?

Louisa May Alcott

I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.

Peter Greenaway

It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness.

Katharine Hepburn

The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.

Martin Luther

A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.

Joseph Brodsky

If I can get somewhere, I'm all right. If not, I'm miserable.

Marilyn Monroe

it is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else

Lydia Lunch

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

Neil Gaiman

Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.