But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.
The happiest pillow on which you may rest your head is the knowledge of God's will. I cannot imagine a more miserable situation than consciously to be out of God's will.
Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.
Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are delivered from the miserable pressure of the will. We celebrate the Sabbath from the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still.
Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty. . . all of it. I would feel everything. It would all be mine.
I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!
You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality. . . through faith. Savage force is faith's obedient servant. Violence on an apocalyptic scale can only be born of faith because reason, by its very nature, disarms senseless cruelty. Only faith thinks to justify it.
There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig - an animal easily as intelligent as a dog - that becomes the Christmas ham.
The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.
It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. . . . Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal.
Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.