The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.
When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
If you're miserable, make a choice. If you're still miserable, you can choose again.
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
The miserable are sacred.
I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm.
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable.
I was drinking a lot of bourbon. I was miserable. I was starting to get work, but it wasn't remotely satisfying. It was garbage compared to the theater I was doing.
A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked. . . . For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found sad. One day they asked him, 'What is the secret of your happiness?' He said, 'There is no secret. Every morning when I wake up, I meditate for five minutes and I say to myself, 'Listen, now there are two possibilities: you can be miserable, or you can be blissful. Choose. ' And I always choose to be blissful. '
If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable.
It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.