Miserable quotes
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"When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever."
"A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable."
"try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is."
"Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short."
"So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness."
"Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable."
"Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?"
"Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable."
"What is more miserable than discontent?"
"I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!"
"The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout."
"Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account."
"The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance."
"If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason."
"Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce."
"Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer."
"The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet."
"Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive."
"How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable."
"I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable."
