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Tag Name "Miserable" (751)

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Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.
Frederick Lenz
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Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.
Maurice Sendak
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She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.
Jane Austen
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A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.
Arthur Smith
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If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others.
Sakyong Mipham
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I think a lot of business students chase money and then they burn out. They have early retirements, not because they want to retire and chill... But because they hate their job and they are miserable. I don't chase money.
Tyra Banks
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I don't think we should go around life and being miserable all the time and feel the pain of paying. It's a question of what categories we want to spend more on and what categories we want feel that we are spending too much on and we want to cut down.
Dan Ariely
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But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.
Lynn Johnston
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What sentence will you choose to impose on yourself? Are you willing to stop suffering and making yourself miserable when your sentence has expired? This would at least be a responsible way to punish yourself because it would be time-limited.
David D. Burns
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Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.
Julie Powell
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I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
James Hillman
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
Margaret Mead
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People make fun of what I'm eating because they can tell I hate it. They know I am not happy eating healthy food. I look miserable - I look like I would rather be eating something else.
Seth Rogen
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My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.
Chris Isaak
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God loves us the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.
Ezra Taft Benson
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
Seneca the Younger
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Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
Zhang Yimou
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Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.
Laura Lippman
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all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.
Herman Melville
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Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.
Rajneesh
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.
Adam Smith
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The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.
Lisa Kleypas
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What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.
Joseph de Maistre
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