Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

Rod McKuen

There's no misery in not being loved, only in not loving.

Trent Reznor

I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.

Samuel Johnson

Misery and shame are nearly allied.

I know it is the misery of men; they can make nothing of this till they feel it.

We set a miserable tone from the start.

Marilyn Monroe

it is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else

Joseph Brodsky

If I can get somewhere, I'm all right. If not, I'm miserable.

Larry David

If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.

Katharine Hepburn

The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The miser robs himself.

John C. Reilly

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

Arthur Golden

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Brendan Behan

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

Al Yankovic

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.

Billy Collins

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

Brooke Shields

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Donald Ray Pollock

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

Dalai Lama

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

Dodie Smith

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

Anthony Powell

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

David Starr Jordan

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

Ambrose Bierce

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Annie Dillard

Put yourself out of your misery.

Angelique Kidjo

Don't let misery bring you down.

Thomas Huxley

Misery is a match that never goes out.

Thomas de Quincey

Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.

Suze Orman

Although money alone won't make us happy, the lack of money surely will make us miserable.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

Victor Garber

What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.

Victor Hugo

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Sophocles

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Swami Vivekananda

No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.