Best Miserable Quotes

Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

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?

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.

Oh, darling, I’ve been so miserable.

What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on? You are in charge of your thoughts and feelings. If you are willing to search for the reason that you can’t let go of disturbing thoughts, you can learn about yourself and restore your own peace of mind.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what.

Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it’s something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies by division. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.

Men’s minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I’m finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I’m happy.

Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

It’s about showing up. And sometimes I don’t do it. I almost always regret it, but sometimes I don’t do it. Sometimes I walk into a situation where I’m intimidated and I want to be liked and I want to fit in, and I don’t choose authenticity. And it’s always pretty miserable.

At some point the Japanese, Chinese and Saudi buyers of US and European Government bonds will see just what miserable value they offer. Then governments may have to stop all the runaway spending and bailouts and even put up interest rates.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce miserable, abortive performances.

Every time you feel miserable, there is present an excellent opportunity to make a big step forward.

Now he’s miserable and depressed.

He’s turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.

I learned I could be miserable anywhere in the world. I learned I really was an American.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

For the last few years, it’s been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you’re in with the cool crowd, you can’t be happy.

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you’re going to suffer.

To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.

The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let go of the reason for it, or move into your real Self. Never let go of – through escape from misery – a good opportunity to grow.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.

But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.

I had an iPhone and a Droid and both of them were miserable pieces of equipment.

They wouldn’t be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn’t be heroes if they weren’t miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.

We weren’t put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.