Welcome to the world of Miserable Quotes, where the poignant words of writers, philosophers, and everyday individuals delve into the depths of human emotion. From the somber reflections of the melancholic to the stark realities of life’s trials, these quotes capture the essence of misery in its various forms. Whether seeking solace in shared experiences or simply contemplating the darker aspects of existence, this collection offers a glimpse into the raw and unfiltered aspects of the human condition.
Within these pages, you’ll encounter expressions of despair, loneliness, and heartache, resonating with those who have traversed similar paths or found themselves lost in the shadows of despair. Through the eloquence of language, these quotes transcend mere words, offering a profound exploration of the complexities of suffering and the universal yearning for understanding and connection. So, delve into this curated selection of Miserable Quotes, and let the words wash over you, offering solace, insight, or perhaps a poignant reminder of the shared human experience. Without further ado, let the journey into the depths of misery begin. Remember, below, you’ll find a collection of quotes on this topic, ripe for your exploration, reflection, or creative endeavors.
I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, ‘I am deaf.’ If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap. Ludwig van Beethoven
The miser, starving his brother’s body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable. Theodore Parker
But I’m not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression. Edward Furlong
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it’s hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood. Larry David
Without literature my life would be miserable. Naguib Mahfouz
Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I’ve ever seen. Chuck Norris
When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem. Joyce Meyer
Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer. Louis Bonaparte
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. Thomas Mann
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. Agatha Christie
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. Baltasar Gracian
I think it’d be miserable to play in a place like Jacksonville, where nobody cares. Jason Kelce
I had, like, 11 jobs. I’ve been fired 11 times! ‘Cause I’m not cut for that. You know, I was a great employee, man. Everybody loved me coming to work – I’m singing, tellin’ jokes on the assembly line. I was miserable, man. I was dying. I was dying. Steve Harvey
I just see too many people retire and say, ‘I’m going to take off, travel, spend time with my family’ and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer. Terry Bradshaw
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition. Victoria Woodhull
My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn’t change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change – we can be miserable or we can be happy. It’s what you make of your life. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. George Bernard Shaw
If you’re always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we’re supposed to enjoy life. Mia Maestro
I have a resting miserable face! Jacob Elordi
I know there’s millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you’re going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you’re going to do 150 concerts a year. Mike Love
I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called ‘coffins.’ As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread. Robert Winston
Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes. Bette Davis
Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim? Alexander the Great
It was great being brought up in a Glasgow working-class tenement. It wasn’t miserable, and it wasn’t poverty stricken. It felt very safe, full of delights. Peter Capaldi
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. Nicolas Chamfort
People think I’m a miserable sod but it’s only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions. Nick Cave
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. Swami Vivekananda
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. Jonathan Swift
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them. Maxim Gorky
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. Joseph Conrad
Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. George Gissing
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. Claudius
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. Hesiod
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. Woody Allen
There are so many miserable people out there who have not fulfilled their dreams. I believe you should do something that you love. John Tesh
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill
I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us. Kinky Friedman
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare. Dick Cavett
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. Benjamin Franklin
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. Nicolas Chamfort
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. Janis Joplin
Satan tries to counterfeit the work of God, and by doing this, he may deceive many. To make us lose hope, feel miserable like himself, and believe that we are beyond forgiveness, Satan might even misuse words from the scriptures that emphasize the justice of God in order to imply that there is no mercy. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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. Frederic Chopin
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. Ambrose Bierce
If you want to live a miserable life, making your life all about other people is the way to do it. Tara Westover
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. Helen Gurley Brown
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. Adam Smith
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. Quentin Crisp
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill
You’re miserable, edgy and tired. You’re in the perfect mood for journalism. Warren Ellis
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. William James
I’m not done yet making people miserable. If they’re going to make me miserable, then I’m going to make them miserable. Brett Hull
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be – a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. Mary Shelley
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When you’re climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable. Edmund Hillary
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. George Bernard Shaw
Do I listen to pop music because I’m miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music? John Cusack
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. Voltaire
I’d rather be rich and miserable than poor and miserable. Theo Paphitis
In fact, commercial aviation is so safe because redundancy is mandated by regulation and built into every level, but our commercial-flying experience is so miserable because airlines have made it as efficient as possible to save money. Zeynep Tufekci
It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy and a lot of focus and dedication to do a film, and it’s just not worth it if you’re going to be miserable for even a day. Brie Larson
I don’t believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel. Gloria Naylor
Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who’s miserable in it – men and women alike – and anyone who’s suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it. Adam Ross
I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you’re in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s. Bob Barker
All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to give it a lethal injection. These are decisions that should be taken by parents – never the state – in consultation with their doctors. Peter Singer
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable. Clare Boothe Luce
You can go to work and actually make someone else’s job less miserable. Use your job to help others. Patrick Lencioni
Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time. Chris Rock
Yes, I’m a miserable, wretched sinner, but He loves me. And to Him, I’m His child, and I can walk in that love and that understanding. Jeremy Camp
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. Charles Spurgeon
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. John Milton
I thought ‘Game of Thrones’ had this challenge in filming, and it’s one of those things you think, ‘It can’t get worse than this,’ because it’s really cold, and you’re in pain, and it’s miserable. Richard Madden
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win. Kevin O’Leary
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking. Marvin Gaye
Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else. Chris Rock
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man’s hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. Don Marquis
I was forced, more or less, to go to anger management. I was either going to make myself and everyone around me miserable, or I was going to realize that there’s more than one person on this Earth. It definitely has made me a better person. Randy Orton
Happiness is such a good state, it doesn’t need to be creative. You’re not creative from happiness, you’re just happy. You’re creative when you’re miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform. Marina Abramovic
Even if you’re unhappy, just pretend that you’re happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think, ‘I’m being fake,’ but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable. Evangeline Lilly
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. Billy Sunday
I don’t think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn’t need to be creative. You’re not creative from happiness, you’re just happy. You’re creative when you’re miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform. Marina Abramovic
Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man. Joyce Meyer
If I am in a beautiful place, but I don’t like the people, I am miserable. Alber Elbaz
I am not one of those fat birds who feels miserable because models are thin. Frankly, I feel more insulted by the idea that unless I see other fat birds in fashion magazines, I will be reduced to a sniveling wreck of a human being. Julie Burchill
I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they’re surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable. Robert Rauschenberg
The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it’s just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers. Matthew Perry
I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don’t. The misery will come. The misery will find you. Bill Burr
There’s as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said – he’d rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much. John Wooden
It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable. Elon Musk
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. Agatha Christie
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. Franz Kafka
We didn’t have any solution to the world’s problems. I mean, we were trying to grow up in a socialist way to some future where the world might be less of a miserable place than it is. Joe Strummer
If you’re a baboon on the Serengeti, and you’re miserable, it’s almost certainly because some other baboon has had the free time and energy to devote to making you miserable. Robert Sapolsky
What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough. Bertolt Brecht
Off the floor, I’m really laid back: like, nothing really fazes me too much. But on the floor, I do get emotional and a little carried away. However, I started playing when I was 13 to have fun with my teammates, and that never stopped. I enjoy traveling and having fun in the locker room with the guys. Life is too short to be miserable. Dirk Nowitzki
I don’t watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry… and miserable. I think it’s awful. Ingmar Bergman
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. Lenny Kravitz
Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can’t choose the consequences of your choices. They’re preloaded. It’s a package deal. Sean Covey
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda