Miserable Quotes

“I am so miserable, there are so many questions, I can see no way out and am so wretched and feeble that I could lie forever on the sofa and keep opening and closing my eyes without knowing the difference.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

“And I am the most miserable man alive, and more so because no one at this dinner table has the slightest notion of what's tearing me up.”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

“For a brokenhearted person memories are the vital parts of misery”
― Munia Khan

“I didn't want to be an immigrant. I was forced to be an immigrant. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French writer, said that the powerful and the happy never go into exile. He was right.”
― Jorge Ramos

“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be
The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin
Your head's under water when you learned to swim
On a road to hell, congratulations, you're free...”
― Sanhita Baruah

“Now that I could not go back I was not sure, after all, that I wished to go forward. It was a miserable sensation.”
― Anna Freeman, The Fair Fight

“My mom stares at him in disbelief. “This is thanks to your schemes. You pressured her to choose you . . . to choose Wonderland over her other side. What did you think would happen?”
Morpheus hunches lower, miserable.”
― A.G. Howard, Ensnared

“It's like, when someone asks you how you are and even though you want to say that you feel like shit, that you're miserable, that you cry until you gag and spend most of your time imagining ways to kill yourself, instead you just say, 'Fine, thanks.”
― Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories

“I always hated...all sad songs. I thought they made happy people miserable. Now I think I understand them better. Bards write them because they can't hold them back. Sadness has got to flow out or it gets stuck and turns bitter.”
― Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder

“A man who is deprived of criticisms is a miserable and a poor man; a man who ignores or refuses or fears criticisms is a foolish man!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I can only see life as this most miserable accident that I have been forced to endure simply because I refuse to see it as the most astounding plan that I have been privileged to engage.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It's easy to say that people focusing on the bad is what makes them miserable. What's not easy is to take a life full of misery and find the joy. While there may be moments of levity, never assume they can make me truly happy.”
― Leah Alvord

“The moment you think that your destiny is predetermined, you become a miserable loser! Trust your own power so that you can shape your own destiny!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If [Patricia Highsmith] saw an acquaintance walking down the sidewalk she would deliberately cross over so as to avoid them. When she came in contact with people, she realised she split herself into many different, false, identities, but, because she loathed lying and deceit, she chose to absent herself completely rather than go through such a charade. Highsmith interpreted this characteristic as an example of 'the eternal hypocrisy in me', rather her mental shape-shifting had its source in her quite extraordinary ability to empathise. Her imaginative capacity to subsume her own identity, while taking on the qualities of those around her - her negative capability, if you like - was so powerful that she said she often felt like her inner visions were far more real than the outside world. She aligned herself with the mad and the miserable, 'the insane man who feels himself one with all mankind, all life, because in losing his mind, he has lost his ego, his self-ness', yet realised that such a state inspired her fiction. Her ambition, she said, was to write about the underlying sickness of this 'daedal planet' and capture the essence of the human condition: eternal disappointment.”
― Andrew Wilson, Patricia Highsmith, ζωή στο σκοτάδι

“I’m not what you think I am, Aladdin! I will betray you, and I will hurt you, because that is what I am. Why do you think Nardukha rips souls from the living and creates jinnis? Why do you think he sends us into the world? To make your miserable dreams come true? To bring you happiness?” I laugh sourly. “He gives you the thing you want most and uses it to destroy you. Look at yourself. You’re a prince. You have money, power, privilege. The chance to avenge your parents. And you’re miserable.”
Aladdin stares at me, and in his eyes is pity. “I’ve been making myself miserable my whole life,” he says softly. “I convinced myself long ago that if I could get revenge on Sulifer, I could finally move on. That I could erase the memory of the day my parents died, when I held their severed heads and watched their blood run in the gutters. But as you say, here I am, a step away from that vengeance—and it has soured on my tongue. I don’t want it anymore.”
He sighs and looks up at the sky, as if searching for words among the stars. “You don’t make me miserable, Zahra. I do that to myself, because I’m too weak, too afraid to admit that it isn’t Sulifer I’m angry at—it’s me. My parents were killed because of me. The day before they were executed, I was caught by the guards for stealing an earring, and when they found out who I was, Sulifer had me whipped until I told him where my parents were. And after they were dead, he gave me back the earring as payment for turning my mother and father over to him.” Lowering his gaze to meet mine, he brushes his fingers over the ring in his ear. “I’ve worn it every day since, to remind myself that nothing—nothing—is worth betraying someone you love.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“el infierno son los otros.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“I shake my head in unfortunate assent...in any life age and stage to this necessary truth one must be able to maintain and without forced effort. Jealousy, dislike, envy, hatred are low-living, human traits, of a rejectable, and dejected nature. Elevate your mindfulness & emotional state when in the presence of those trapped in their negative miserable ones. I recommend when that's finished, recalibrate who you've allowed to access your inner/outer circle perimeter - the gift of your personal/professional contact & presence...then...adjust control measures accordingly. You can believe with full certainty you'll be on a healthy and gold-bricked wealthy boulevard to practicing soul abuse & neglect prevention - by the lightning-quick process of connection elimination. Selah...”
― Tracey Bond

“This person probably lives in their momma's basement, scratching their ass and lacking vitamin D. #SocialMediaTrolls”
― Luuvie Ajayi

“He ran as fast as he could, but the memories were fast too. He stumbled upon them and fell to the ground. The memories got up and stared into his eyes menacingly, they laughed harder and kept their foot on his neck. He choked and fought to breathe. He tried and failed to scream. They choked him hard until he suffered and died miserably inside.”
― Akshay Vasu

“If you think the reason you exist or go to school is just to satisfy your selfish ambitions, then you are of all men most miserable”
― Topsy Gift

“Dead people don't haunt you.
Your own neglects haunt you.
//Why People Feel Miserable”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Lilian testifies eloquently to the misery that can ensue when the only challenge you can overcome in your own work is the challenge of coming to terms with the fact that you are not, in fact, presented with any challenges; when the only way you can
exercise your powers is in coming up with creative ways to cover up the fact that you
cannot exercise your powers; of managing the fact that you have, completely against
your choosing, been turned into a parasite and fraud.”
― David Graeber , Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

“To his distress, the Queen suddenly "burst into a passion of weeping and said it was plain [she] was to be miserable as long as [she] lived, whatever [she] did.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A non-reading society is nothing but a miserable society; a non-reading nation will be nothing but a disgrace of all other nations!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don’t try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“But such was the way with people – they loved the things that made them miserable.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix

“If we fail to listen to music, we shall be miserable.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“How could we be miserable, when there is music?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“They don't care about you... they want you to feel miserable.”
― Deyth Banger