Miserable People Quotes

Gothenburg's definitely a music city as well, but I think just because of the weather - it's so cold and miserable - people stay in. Coming to the States and going into the store and people are like, "Hi, can I help you?" - I'm not used to people randomly talking to me that I don't know.

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others

If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

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.

The Jews are the most miserable people on earth. They are plagued everywhere, and scattered about all countries, having no certain resting place. They sit as on a wheelbarrow, without a country, people or government... but they are rightly served, for seeing they refused have Christ and his gospel, instead of freedom they must have servitude.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better.... I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything, and they're absolutely the most miserable people in the world. So it won't do anything for you unless you're a happy person and can have peace with yourself.

Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.

Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.

The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.

Miserable people love to make other people miserable. I don't hate them, I just feel sorry for them.

The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be.

The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

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.

He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.

If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninteresting, boring people behind it.

Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Comedians a lot of times we're on the road, we're by our self. We come home to New York to our empty one-bedroom apartment, you know, and we need a place to go where you see a bunch of other miserable people sit around and eat a corned beef sandwich.

Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.