The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job.
I am malicious because I am miserable
Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!
Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.
That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive? My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable. Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.
Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.
Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.
Sometimes it is good to fall down so that we can see whether we honourably get up or disgracefully turn into a miserable reptile!
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.
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.
I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.
And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.