Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable
I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.
You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.
I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.
As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.
After high school, I worked as a messenger boy at a local bank. I was miserable. I felt like Robin Hood chained in the Sheriff of Nottingham's dungeon. As a would-be writer, I thought it was a catastrophe. As a bank employee, I could barely add or subtract and had to count on my fingers.
I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.
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.
I can see no ultimate good results that can accrue from the education of a race without planting in their being a hope of attaining the highest position in government affairs and society. In fact I can see no reason to expect that any man can be made happy by whetting his intelligence to that point where he can better contemplate or realize the hopeless gulf that must ever separate him and his race from the best things that the dominant race (who employ him as a servant) have in store for themselves. I believe that any person so situated would grow miserable, in proportion as he increased in intelligence…. Whatever tends to sour our natures, or that causes us to give way to passion or temper, tends to destroy us, and no cost should be considered in a matter so fraught with danger to the attainment of the civilization and Christianization of the world as will the attempt to compel these two races to live in the same territory.
It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time.
I keep my expectations low, so nobody disappoints me." "Yeah, well, I have high expectations." I look toward Miranda. "I guess my friends do, too." "Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.
Hippy, you think everything is a conspiracy. Everything is!
How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?
When the Spirit of God moves within us, we must move with Him or be miserable.
Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.
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.
By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything
When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.
And when Elvis was unhappy, believe me, everyone was unhappy.
I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.
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.
You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable.
All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.
