Have you ever noticed how when you're happy, time seems to pass by fast, while when you're miserable it goes real slow? Life would have been a blink with you whether it lasted a millennium or a month.
Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist. " "Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad. " "That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.
The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.
If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.
I'm angry at what's happening to America and angry with myself that I can't do more. I would be miserable if I couldn't bear witness.
The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
You've gained some powers by your entrance into other dimensions and you use them to attack others or to make others miserable, then power reverses on you and it pulls you apart because it's not supposed to be used that way.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.
Don't create a plastic image of what it is to be spiritual and try to become it. You won't be capable of it and that will frustrate you. Even if you could do it, if it's not really what you're like, you'll be miserable.
I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.
I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what. " "My mother didn't love me. " So what. "My husband won't ball me. So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone. " So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.
Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?
If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.
The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.
Self Pity is the most miserable party to go to, because, in case you haven't noticed, you're the only one who is there.
If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable.
Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.