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.'
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.
I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.
You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on miserable paper. That was, for many years, what art was for me. But from those miserable black-and-white reproductions, I got something, something unmistakable.
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
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?
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
I had, like, 11 jobs. I've been fired 11 times! 'Cause I'm not cut for that. You know, I was a great employee, man. Everybody loved me coming to work - I'm singing, tellin' jokes on the assembly line. I was miserable, man. I was dying. I was dying.
I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.
A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.
Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.
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.
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.
Well, it's not hard to be number one entertaining Jew. Some of them are quite bleeding bloody miserable, really.
I don't think you are truly successful unless you are a happy person and are happy with your life. I know many people who are professionally successful but miserable.
A man 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.
If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.
But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.
