Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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 ~
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
~By Louis Mumford ~
He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
~By Thomas Gray ~
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
~By William Cobbett ~
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
~By William Blake ~
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
~By Noah Webster ~
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
~By Matt LeBlanc ~
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 ~
I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.
~By Rudolph Valentino ~
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
~By Rene Magritte ~
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
~By Janis Joplin ~
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.
~By William Wyler ~
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
~By Hesiod ~
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.
~By Amy Tan ~
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 ~
As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.
~By Jean-Bertrand Aristide ~
Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
~By Benazir Bhutto ~
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
~By Zhang Yimou ~
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 ~
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
~By Princess Diana ~
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.
~By Mia Maestro ~
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
~By William James ~
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
~By John Calvin ~
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
~By Karl Marx ~
A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?
~By Christian Bale ~
To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.
~By James Payn ~
Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.
~By Phillip Adams ~
More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
~By Thomas Traherne ~
You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.
~By Elizabeth Wurtzel ~
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 devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.
~By Fay Wray ~
I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.
~By Brett Hull ~
It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.
~By Christine Keeler ~
May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
~By Robertson Davies ~
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.
~By George Gissing ~
Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
~By Arthur Adamov ~
Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
~By Albert Bushnell Hart ~
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 ~
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
~By Theodore Parker ~
Never was a miser a brave soul.
~By George Herbert ~
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
~By Ritchie Blackmore ~
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 ~
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
~By Helen Gurley Brown ~
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
~By Letitia Landon ~
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
~By Maxim Gorky ~
Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
~By Boethius ~
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
~By Francois Fenelon ~
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
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 ~
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 ~
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.
~By George Grosz ~
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
~By James A. Garfield ~
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 ~
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
~By George Santayana ~
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
~By Philip Massinger ~
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
~By Ralph Steadman ~
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 ~
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
~By Voltaire ~
The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.
~By John Grierson ~
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
~By Robert Anthony ~
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 ~
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
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 ~
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.
~By Roy Wood ~
Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
~By Larry King ~
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 tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
~By Beth Henley ~
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
~By William Blake ~
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
~By Russell Baker ~
The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!
~By Meat Loaf ~
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
~By John Milton ~
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
~By Charles Darwin ~
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 ~
I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.
~By Jon Crosby ~
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