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 key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.
~By Matthew Perry ~
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Misery is a communicable disease.
~By Martha Graham ~
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
~By Albert Camus ~
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
There is winning and there is misery.
~By Bill Parcells ~
If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
~By Woody Allen ~
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 ~
Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.
~By Chris Rock ~
Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.
~By Matt LeBlanc ~
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
~By Philip Larkin ~
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
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 ~
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 ~
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
~By Zhang Yimou ~
I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.
~By Lara Flynn Boyle ~
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Without literature my life would be miserable.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
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 ~
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
~By Lord Byron ~
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 ~
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
~By Spike Milligan ~
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
~By Karl Kraus ~
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
~By Boethius ~
He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
~By Thomas Gray ~
Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
~By Benazir Bhutto ~
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.
~By Davy Jones ~
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
~By Marvin Gaye ~
Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.
~By Stanley Kubrick ~
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
~By Noel Gallagher ~
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
~By Adam Smith ~
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 ~
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
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 ~
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
~By Helen Gurley Brown ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
~By Victoria Abril ~
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 ~
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
~By Richard Hooker ~
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
~By Alexander Smith ~
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
~By Ritchie Blackmore ~
Misery is a match that never goes out.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
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 ~
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
~By Colin Wilson ~
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 ~
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.
~By John Cleveland ~
The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.
~By Joseph Butler ~
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
~By William James ~
Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
~By Karl Amadeus Hartmann ~
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
~By Joseph Addison ~
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 ~
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
~By Carlos Castaneda ~
I love what I do. When a month goes by and I'm not working, I'm miserable.
~By Roselyn Sanchez ~
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
~By Carlos Castenada ~
Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time.
~By Richard H. Davis ~
But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.
~By Edward Furlong ~
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
~By Thomas Otway ~
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
~By Aeschylus ~
You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.
~By Gordon Parks ~
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.
~By Phillip Adams ~
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
~By Fiona Shaw ~
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
~By Saint Augustine ~
Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!
~By John Foxe ~
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 ~
Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.
~By Jake Roberts ~
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. ~
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 ~
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
~By Claudius ~
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
~By Beth Henley ~
No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.
~By David Starr Jordan ~
I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.
~By Damon Hill ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
~By Brian Austin Green ~
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 ~
But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
~By Victor Cousin ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
~By James Hillman ~
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