Top 265 Miserable Quotes

If you’re relying on winning for happiness, you’re going to be a miserable individual.

I was like, ‘You know what, I’m going to try a juice cleanse.’ I’d never done it before but I thought it was a good idea. I was miserable. I wanted food, I was cranky and the bottom line is I don’t think I will ever do that again.

I’m actually a miserable, authoritarian guy at home… no really, I’m strict.

I am quite miserable because I’m never satisfied with what I’ve got. You’re always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

I don’t watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry… and miserable. I think it’s awful.

There are plenty of miserable millionaires all over the place.

I didn’t do anything for two years but work on ‘Gone Baby Gone,’ and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn’t happen.

You’ve got to allow yourself the things you enjoy or you’ll just be miserable.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

When I’m acting well, it’s the most exhilarating experience. When I’m bad, it’s miserable.

In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.

Being a songwriter, you are accepting that this isn’t about you. If you do want it to be about you, you’re going to be really miserable.

I don’t think I’ve had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I’ve had a pretty lucky life.

Most writing staffs have this crazy high turnover, and then everyone’s really miserable, and I don’t understand that. I don’t know why you don’t grow people to then be able to take over as you. That’s how I can have more shows.

A miserable politics awaits us when the irreligious rot flows downstream.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

My advice is: if you’ve got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

Often, when you’re on a movie set, you’re miserable. It’s cold. You’re hungry. You’re tired. It’s still dark out. And yet, there’s no place I’d rather be. It’s the happiest I am, and the most calm.

If an executive producer has written a certain line, and an actress says it, and it’s not very funny, you don’t dare go to them and say, ‘I don’t like this,’ because it will make your life miserable.

Terrible things happen all of the time, and they can happen in a second. The best thing is to be prepared to react. If you try to control every little thing, you’re going to end up miserable – and you’re going to fail.

I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren’t together personally as a band. We weren’t pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you’re having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.

Recessions are never good for anyone. A sputtering economy means miserable financial, emotional, and physical-health consequences for everyone from infants to retirees.

All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I’m a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I’d be miserable and would feel like I wasn’t seeing through my personal destiny.

You can’t let people control your feelings, or you’ll live a pretty miserable life trying to change them.

At my aunt’s funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn’t be bound by the belief that I’m supposed to stay in anything – whether it’s a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance – if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

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.

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn’t hold my attention. I couldn’t figure skate. I’m afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.

I think it would be a bit miserable going out with somebody who was totally uninterested in food.

First semester I took classes like econ and that kind of stuff, and I was miserable.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that ‘brainy’ people can be.

I used to watch actors and say, ‘You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.’

It is impossible to be miserable and depressed whilst whistling.

I have had an actor squeeze himself up against me during a shot in a song and whisper in my ear that he was so glad that I was in the film with him. When I threw him off me and refused to speak to him again, he made my experience miserable.

If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you’re not happy then that’s probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.

I think when you are older, you should be slowing down, but I wouldn’t like not to work as I would get rather miserable.

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.

I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.

Flying is so miserable these days. You have to go through security, and get up at the crack of dawn.

Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

What I love about natural climate solutions is that we should be doing all these things anyway. Instead of making painful choices and deploying miserable means to a desirable end, we can defend ourselves from disaster by enhancing our world of wonders.

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.

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.

I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak.

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

People think I’m a miserable sod but it’s only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

I’m not done yet making people miserable. If they’re going to make me miserable, then I’m going to make them miserable.

The military has a way of ruining all the best recreational activities – scuba, sky diving, camping, hiking – all made much more miserable with a heavy rucksack on your back under arduous conditions.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

If I set out to write ‘War And Peace’ or ‘A Suitable Boy,’ I’d be miserable.

My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill or training, was that I wanted to learn everything.

If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it’s hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

Anyone who knows me knows that I’m miserable during Ramadan. Some would say I’m miserable all year round, but it does affect my mood.

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I’ve had a great life.

If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.