The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield
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Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin Franklin
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.
Hubert H. Humphrey
No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.
David Starr Jordan
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen
If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job.
Woody Allen
Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable. The horrible would be terminal cases, blind people, criples. The miserable is everyone else. When you go through life you should be thankful that you're miserable.
Woody Allen
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
Princess Diana
I don't think it's bad to get divorced. I think it's more unhealthy to have miserable lives. We weren't put here to live miserably, we were put here to grow and learn and be happy.
Ginger Wynn
It's a slow and miserable way to die. These tumors grow as ulcerated masses and cause bleeding and infection.
Stephen Rubin
Every practice he could make your life miserable if he wanted to.
Sergei Brylin
Cocoa? Cocoa! Damn miserable puny stuff, fit for kittens and unwashed boys. Did Shakespeare drink cocoa?
Shirley Jackson
What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
Andre Malraux
Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.
George Gissing
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
Quentin Crisp
You can confine him to a miserable existence until he dies.
Gerald Zerkin
Most of the elder gay men have wives and children, but they are hiding their sexual orientation from their family. The wives live a miserable life with husbands who cannot love them.
Liu Shujie
I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
Viggo Mortensen
It's going to be a miserable day, especially after the last few days.
Justin Lane
I would have been miserable if I didn't have surgery. I'm pretty happy that I did have surgery. It makes it all worthwhile.
Justin Eastman
My goal is to make sure that he stays locked up for the rest of his miserable life -- here or in Mexico.
Josh Mccown
It's a miserable thing to live with.
Marc Summers
We didn't do this to make people miserable. It was done out of the pending budget. It just came down to money.
Paul Lueken
It is one of the most miserable experiences in my life and I am glad it is over.
Steve Osburn
That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything [was] going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.
Susanna Hoffs
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man.
Pliny the Elder
There's no doubt we are seeing a string of nothing but miserable corporate news.
Jordan Kimmel
I stayed later than the guys who were playing. It was miserable. I didn't even feel like I was part of the team.
Rocco Baldelli
It is not the place, not the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
L. Estrange
Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.
Larry Hagman
We're innocent people, looking after a population that the rich want to keep miserable.
Amaral Duclona
It was annoying to me the first time I ever heard it. Mind you, I had to go perform that all the time, and it was miserable for me because I didn't know how to use my voice properly. All I knew was how to be on 100.
Linda Perry
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.
Gloria Naylor
Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
Joanna Field
It was miserable weather out there, yet that didn't affect the race. We just didn't show up as a team.
Holly Hatton
It's a strange feeling to see one's books come up at auction and also, to some extent, a sign of my miserable early failings as an author.
Ian Rankin
The message that is coming across from the media is clearly, 'Watch out, women, if you're ambitious. If you don't get married and have kids right away, you're gonna be miserable the rest of your life'.
Caryl Rivers
It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.
Harvey Mackay
We're not going to make it enjoyable to lose around here. It's going to be a miserable existence.
Mike Sanford
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
Rene Magritte
I knew my husband would be miserable on the cruise, and we thought it would be tough for mom to go to the Frozen Four alone.
Margaret Sander
Many people are out without shelter. It was miserable to start with but with this things are only going to get worse.
Robert Holden
I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.
Bob Barker
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
David Frost
I think it's a miserable way to end a pretty good cruise.
Dr. Sharon Levy
I've had a miserable few years, but my support group and my family never gave up and I never gave up.
Tim Goebel
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
Franz Kafka
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
Nicholas Chamfort
It was the most miserable part of any time I've been here.
Michael Young
I did it because of that miserable, illegal war. That son-of-a-b---- never should have started it. I would say it to his face.
Marie Runyon
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce
They should all go to jail. They should have sat there and stayed on the job. It's just going to make everyone miserable.
Jim Giannella
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
Thomas Traherne
I was tired of being miserable. I've got so much free time now, it's ridiculous.
Anthony Schlegel
In high school you get so wrapped up in everything that you end up miserable. It's so much more enjoyable than prom.
Whitney Prather
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is largely a matter of self-hypnotism. You can think yourself happy or you can think yourself miserable.
Dorothy Dix
The miserable power situation must improve to help sustain our economic growth.
Mir Nasir Hossain
Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown.
Jane Austen
I know a playwright with a forty-thousand-dollar house in Beverly and he's miserable.
John Garfield
You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
Warren Ellis
I saw how beaten down you were, how miserable you've been. The last couple of years have been very difficult.
Robin Quivers
He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.
Milo Hamilton
I was born into a very, very poor family during the war in 1941. Life was miserable for everyone.
Pavel Fomin
Some rooms are getting above 90 degrees. There might be the risk of some of the kids getting sick. So far, my son is miserable, but he's not sick.
Sue Higgins
It's loud and obnoxious. It's miserable.
Lee Murphy
I know it's going to be a miserable night. It's already been a miserable night. But what can we do?
Kris Benson
It's not as much about sales as it is about how you feel doing it. If I start hating doing this and it makes me miserable, I won't do it anymore. This is not our last record. The way I'm feeling about everything, I could go back and do another album.
Johnny Rzeznik
It's a place not fit for human habitation. It's a miserable place, and life is very difficult for the people.
Yusuf Hassan
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
Noel Gallagher
I would rather make less money and enjoy my job than make a lot and be miserable.
Thomas Squiers
It's miserable, it's freezing and we're trying to squeeze in as many people as we can. We're certainly going to make sure every bed is filled.
Nick Baker
It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.
Scottish Proverb
They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.
Lester Bangs
Everybody was out of sync. It was just gloriously miserable.
Donald U. Wise
It's miserable, because we're invading on their property and their space.
Sally Williams
Yeah. They're never easy to do. I don't like doing sex scenes! I feel they're really miserable to make.
Mira Sorvino
Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.
Chris Rock
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.
Mia Maestro
It was hot and miserable and everybody was kind of miserable. They don't like getting beat and that's a good thing.
Mike Hayhurst
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
Appius Claudius
He's miserable. He wants to come back. Christmas was the hardest.
Ashley Painter
It would have been miserable for them, ... It was wet, the roof leaked, they couldn't keep their clothes dry.
William Wagner
We go in March and April, when it's pretty cold and miserable there (in the East and Midwest). We talk about how great a place the Valley of the Sun is to live, and that's a big draw for educators.
Timothy Tait
I don't want to live the next ten years like this. This place here is miserable.
Chadrick Fulks
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.
Archibald Alexander
I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.
Rudolph Valentino
It's a very miserable result. I was deeply saddened to hear about the removal of the two editors.
Pu Zhiqiang
I am extremely disappointed in this year. I hated it; it made my life miserable.
Steve Bisciotti
My actors and crew were miserable working in that desert.
Robert Halmi Sr
It would be a lot of fun to take someone out of the playoffs and make them feel as miserable as we do.
Jeff Weaver
FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to be famous aspired. Content? Well, his grill has a plating of gold, And his twistings are greatly admired. Hassan Brubuddy.
Ambrose Bierce
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.
Paul Little
Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
Thomas Traherne
Do an exercise you like. Don't do something that is absolutely miserable.
Sasha Courbat
Life will become more miserable for the more than 1 million people displaced because of drought and civil war.
Gordon Weiss
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Letitia Landon
I hope the Catholics don't get a hold of him and make him a saint. That would make him most miserable and unhappy, because he would not think he was worthy.
Malachy Mccourt
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Robert Anthony
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
Elizabeth Hardwick
I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.
Brett Hull
Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.
Erik Satie
It was a hard time but you have to get on with things.You can't wander around miserable.
Emma Thompson
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