Zitat des Tages über Elend / Miserable:
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.
If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
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.
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
I personally don't need to see a story about a person that starts up miserable and ends up worse.
'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'they.' You might have a personal 'they.' They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don't like winners; they don't like people who's blessed. So everybody's got a different 'they.'
Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.
The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.
For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.
I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.
I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak.
I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.
Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!
We all suffer in our own way; like, life is miserable. And I'm not, 'Oh, I'm a stand-up who's sad,' but the reality is that just about everyone is quietly unhappy. I don't think that pertains to comedians specifically. I think most people look at themselves in the mirror and are not happy with what they see.
I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.
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.
I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.
I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.
I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
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?
The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
I think what's wrong with too many people is they're too reserved. They're miserable, but they don't want to talk about it.