It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
~By Leslie Charteris ~
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.
~By Todd Solondz ~
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
~By Letitia Landon ~
But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.
~By Lynn Johnston ~
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.
~By Joseph Butler ~
He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
~By Thomas Gray ~
Misery is a communicable disease.
~By Martha Graham ~
I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.
~By Ezra Cornell ~
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
~By Albert Camus ~
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.
~By Archibald Alexander ~
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
~By Karl Kraus ~
They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.
~By Stephen Phillips ~
Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.
~By Chris Rock ~
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
~By Madalyn Murray O'Hair ~
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
~By Noel Gallagher ~
You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
~By Naomi Watts ~
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.
~By Agatha Christie ~
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
Without literature my life would be miserable.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
~By Voltaire ~
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.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
~By Colin Wilson ~
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
~By Anne Frank ~
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
~By Patrick White ~
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.
~By Joe Pantoliano ~
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
~By Gates McFadden ~
Misery is a match that never goes out.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.
~By Susanna Hoffs ~
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
~By Edvard Munch ~
Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
~By Duke of Wellington ~
Choosing to be miserable is an option, but not one I recommend.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
~By Dennis Prager ~
Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
~By Bette Davis ~
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
~By Margaret Drabble ~
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
~By Jean Racine ~
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
~By Clifton Paul Fadiman ~
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
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.
~By Tim Conway ~
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
~By Josh Billings ~
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
~By William Glasser ~
I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.
~By Larry David ~
Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.
~By Paul Simon ~
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
~By Samuel Daniel ~
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
~By William Cobbett ~
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
~By Billy Sunday ~
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
~By Thomas Mann ~
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
~By Gloria Naylor ~
A man 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.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.
~By Chuck Norris ~
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
~By Alexander Smith ~
Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.
~By Georges Duhamel ~
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
~By Zhang Yimou ~
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
~By James Hillman ~
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
~By Adam Smith ~
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
~By George Mason ~
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
~By James Boswell ~
If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.
~By Mia Maestro ~
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.
~By Thomas Traherne ~
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.
~By Louis Bonaparte ~
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
~By Voltaire ~
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
~By Rudyard Kipling ~
If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
~By Woody Allen ~
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
~By Thomas Traherne ~
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
~By Karl Marx ~
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
~By Marvin Gaye ~
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
~By Francis Picabia ~
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.
~By Denis Kearney ~
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.
~By Joseph Butler ~
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
~By James Tobin ~
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
~By Benazir Bhutto ~
The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.
~By Arthur Scargill ~
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
~By Nagarjuna ~
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