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I remember very vividly going to school, being very happy, and then just having guys there who were just out to make my life miserable.
Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.
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.
Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.
The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.
I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.
salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.
Being a songwriter, you are accepting that this isn't about you. If you do want it to be about you, you're going to be really miserable.
How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.
There never yet was, and never will be, a nation permanently great, consisting, for the greater part, of wretched and miserable families.
The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.
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.
Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
I've been poor and neglected, in the middle and cherished, then rich and miserable and back to the middle and now happy. I've lived it all.
It's possible to shoot two TV shows. It's absolutely possible, it's not something I would choose to do. It does sound completely miserable.
I wanted to try and get out of the stereotypical Geordie girl. I stopped wearing fake tan and wore WAG dresses. But I was really miserable.
I beat myself a little bit too much sometimes. When you beat yourself a little bit too much, there's little things that make you miserable.
Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.
When I see my picture in the papers, I imagine that people think I'm a lot more serious than I am. They probably think I'm pretty miserable.
We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?
Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?
Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never been so high.
I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable.
I remember coming in second in a singing competition when I was about 5. I was terrified and didn't win because I apparently looked miserable.
Had I not spent so much time doing something that made me so miserable, I would have never learned how to appreciate doing what brings me joy.
For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable.
As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.
Y'know, even in a lot of heterosexual cinema it's always kind of miserable. Love doesn't work and then, if it does work, it's suddenly a rom-com.
Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.
A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness.
You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.
I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.
I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.
I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
People always accuse me of making these dark, depressing movies. 'Why do you have to pick up on real issues? People are so exhausted and miserable.'
Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.
Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?
We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.
If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do become successful because all your problems just get magnified.
A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.
all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.