I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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.
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.
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
People also smile when they are miserable.
Staying in a hopeless and miserable situation doesn't make you loyal, it just makes you miserable.
Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be far more concerned with the spiritual and with subjects like isolation and being miserable.
The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.
Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.
Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.
If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable.
In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.
If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.
A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.