Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?
My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try not to make somebody else's life miserable because you are.
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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.
I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.
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.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!
I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.
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.
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.
I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.
Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.
All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living, then it is permissible to give it a lethal injection. These are decisions that should be taken by parents - never the state - in consultation with their doctors.
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
People love to make comedians out to be miserable, dark, twisted people. And I just - I think a lot of people struggle with depression and mental illness and have issues and problems within their family. The mailman has it. Your neighbor has it. It's just that comedians have a microphone.
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.
For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN.
I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.
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.
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.
I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
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.
One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
There's this tendency to be like, 'Where's the negative stuff? How valid is the criticism?' But honestly, what people think of me is none of my business. If I live on the Internet looking for public approval, I'm going to be miserable.
I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
The thing about growing old is you have to accept it - if you don't, you'll be as miserable as sin. You've got to try and find the few good things about it.
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.
