It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
The only time I’m miserable is when I can’t keep an instrument in tune.
Doing ‘Malcolm and Eddie’ was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.
A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Life’s philosophy, hm… I just say, ‘Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.’
I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I’d ever had. And it was also the most miserable I’ve ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That’s when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.
Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches, but men in good position, well-to-do sycophants.
If you’re always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we’re supposed to enjoy life.
You know, the last time America sensationalized an actor from India, the man died a poor, miserable soul: He was Sabu, the elephant boy. He came here and was the toast of Hollywood. And he just went back to India and died a pauper.
I’m worried because a lot of coaches aren’t having fun. They’re miserable, worried about getting fired, fighting recruiting.
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.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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.
Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.
Every writer you meet, at least in Hollywood, is miserable.
I was miserable at uni. There were months at a time when I wouldn’t leave the house unless it was to buy food. I lost a lot of friendships. I later lost jobs because of my mental health.
Whether you are happy or miserable is completely a choice.
I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.
When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
I wasn’t present for my own life for a long time. I wasn’t there; I wasn’t in my relationships; I wasn’t in my band; I wasn’t in my soul – I was disconnected from all of it. I would let myself live in a miserable situation forever, mostly of my own making. I made my own misery and made the people around me miserable.
I think what’s wrong with too many people is they’re too reserved. They’re miserable, but they don’t want to talk about it.
Y’know, even in a lot of heterosexual cinema it’s always kind of miserable. Love doesn’t work and then, if it does work, it’s suddenly a rom-com.
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
When we prolong negative behavior – the kind that hurts the people we love or the kind that hurts us in some way – we are leading a changeless life in the most hazardous manner. We are willfully choosing to be miserable and making others miserable, too.
People who worry about stupid things, just end up looking miserable after a while – it shows.
We all suffer in our own way; like, life is miserable. And I’m not, ‘Oh, I’m a stand-up who’s sad,’ but the reality is that just about everyone is quietly unhappy. I don’t think that pertains to comedians specifically. I think most people look at themselves in the mirror and are not happy with what they see.
I get miserable if I don’t eat.
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
It’s a miserable life in Hollywood. You’re up at five or six o’clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
According to the papers, I’m miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that’s simply not where I am.
If I were to be stuck in New York, I would be miserable. I love N.Y.C. but it’s not enough.
I’d rather be rich and miserable than poor and miserable.
I’ve tried to figure out ways to be less pleased other than the search for perfection. Talk about a thing that’ll make you have a miserable life. On that quest, on that journey, down that path, there’s a lot of feelings of, ‘Why am I doing all this?’
Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.
I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno’s for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.
A miserable karaoke experience is when people are trying really hard and trying to show off. You have to just be chill – that’s what makes karaoke fun.
I keep telling the players to enjoy the good moments. There are too many moments in this world currently that are pretty miserable and downbeat, so if there is light at certain times, I want them to enjoy it.
Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood.
I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn’t understand why that would be.
Maybe that is why kids like Dumbledore: because he is funny rather than a miserable old sod with a long white beard.
Do I listen to pop music because I’m miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn’t exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.
Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ’s righteousness, and enriched in his God.
I did a diet once and it was awful and made me miserable – I would never do it again.
When you’re young and beautiful, you’re paranoid and miserable.
It’s miserable wearing black all the time, unless you’re Johnny Cash.
A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.
I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically, ‘Gin, we think you suck.’ I was miserable. I cried and cried. But looking back, that taught me about social skills and how to communicate with musicians.
I have to feel that I’m going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can’t be 100 percent happy where you are. It’s not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it’s good to be miserable for about one day every third week – that’s ideal for me.
Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!
I’m never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.
There are so many miserable people out there who have not fulfilled their dreams. I believe you should do something that you love.
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
When I’m training hard, the diet is miserable.
I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there’s been points in my life when they weren’t around, and it’s a real sort of miserable existence.
Rock’s gone soft, it’s gone miserable and boring, there’s not really much exciting about it. So it’s important that we cross over, because we feel like we belong more in a place where people just like music and it’s not about how heavy it is.
I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.
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.
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
Basic SEAL training is six months of long, torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses, unending calisthenics, days without sleep and always being cold, wet and miserable.
