The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.
Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.
My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.
Life is too short to be miserable.
But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.
Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
The best thing ever is when some guy in his 50s taps me on the shoulder and says, 'I just want to let you know I hate my job, I hate my wife, and I come home and I watch reruns of your show and it's the only half hour of the day when I laugh and I forget how miserable life is.'
Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.
Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.
People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.
I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.
It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'
I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.
Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.
There are plenty of miserable millionaires all over the place.
I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.
My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.
