We have all had moments in our lives where we feel down and out, but with these 100 miserable people quotes, you can find strength to move forward. Feeling low at times is perfectly normal, and it’s important to remember that there are others who feel the same way. It’s essential to recognize that despite your current state of mind, you are capable of greatness.
These quotes can help motivate and inspire you to keep pushing through the darkness. They will remind you that no matter how bad things may seem, better days are ahead. It’s important to recognize that life is full of both highs and lows, but if we stay true to ourselves and never give up, we can get through anything.
Miserable People Quotes
- “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Haruki Murakami
- “Life is misery, without music.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
- “I love death because life hates me.” – Luffina Lourduraj
- “Whoever rejects music, will be miserable.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
- “I come from a long line of miserable people.” – Arlene Schindler
- “The more you judge, the more miserable you are.” – Robert Celner
- “I am malicious because I am miserable” – Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
- “Depression is an imagery of our heart’s sickness.” – Rizky Adam Rifai
- “How could we be miserable, when there is music?” – Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everyone else.” – Chris Rock
- “If we fail to listen to music, we shall be miserable.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Oh, darling, I’ve been so miserable.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
- “They don’t care about you… they want you to feel miserable.” – Deyth Banger
- “I want to drown in my tears, And my tears are my prayers.” – Luffina Lourduraj
- “I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.” – Holly Black, Red Glove
- “A pleasurable woman could cause more harm than miserable one.” – Santosh Kalwar
- “For a brokenhearted person memories are the vital parts of misery” – Munia Khan
- “Women cover their wounds, man cover his miserable” – J.S. Dirga, Saga Moon Poem
- “A man may not be miserable in misery, if he delights in music.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Mungkin kau tidak membutuhkanku. Tapi aku membutuhkanmu.” – Ilana Tan, Sunshine Becomes You
- “Catch up the motivation, before misery catches up with you.” – Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- “I wasn’t an insomniac, but I was miserable.” – Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- “By nature, humans are happy souls, but we choose to feel miserable.” – Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz
- “Memories are so strange. It makes joyful to miserable and inconsolable to cheerful.” – Surya Raj
- “You’re pretty miserable, Mother, and you’re married.” – Rose Calloway” – Krista Ritchie, Ricochet
- “You always look happy.” – stuff she used to say before making his life miserable” – Nitya Prakash
- “Come hither, Fool.” The Fool jingled miserably across the floor.” – Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
- “I’d rather be miserable loving you than happy with anyone else.” – Angela Morrison, Sing Me to Sleep
- “I never knew it was possible to be so miserable in so many ways.” – Amie Kaufman, These Broken Stars
- “Dead people don’t haunt you. Your own neglects haunt you. //Why People Feel Miserable” – Vineet Raj Kapoor
- “But such was the way with people – they loved the things that made them miserable.” – Nathan Hill, The Nix
- “If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.” – Glen Duncan, By Blood We Live
- “People live miserably without loving well and people love miserably without living well.” – Srinivas Mishra
- “My life was too much miserable that I never felt to think beyond filling my empty stomach.” – M.F. Moonzajer
- “Don’t let feeling lonely push you into the arms of a person who will make you miserable.” – Stephan Labossiere
- “Most of the time you meet bodies with a sour soul, and but a few wholly souls with a body.” – Anthony Liccione
- “He’s turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he’s miserable and depressed.” – David Frost
- “Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
- “…I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people’s faces.” – Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
- “We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “I was fifteen. I was bored. I was miserable.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
- “The main source of some poor people’s misery is, not their being poor, but some people’s not being poor.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “try to enjoy myself when I can – I’ll be miserable enough as it is.” – Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
- “I need love, I’ve never felt more in need of it than now. I feel so terribly terribly unhappy.” – Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
- “This person probably lives in their momma’s basement, scratching their ass and lacking vitamin D. #SocialMediaTrolls” – Luuvie Ajayi
- “We can either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong.” – George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance
- “I suppose that’s what happens when you make other people’s lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.” – Sonya Hartnett, Surrender
- “People may ask “why do you laugh at simple things?” Tell them that why don’t you? Life is too short to make it so miserable.” – Kenneth de Guzman
- “If you think the reason you exist or go to school is just to satisfy your selfish ambitions, then you are of all men most miserable” – Topsy Gift
- “Now that I could not go back I was not sure, after all, that I wished to go forward. It was a miserable sensation.” – Anna Freeman, The Fair Fight
- “Being miserable is something one carries in the soul before it is made apparent in the spirit. – On Being Miserable” – Lamine Pearlheart, Awakening
- “Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.” – Stevie Smith, Selected Poems
- “You are young, and in love,” said Primus. “Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.” – Neil Gaiman, Stardust
- “Don’t use your past history as an excuse to be miserable. Use your past as a testament to show the world just how far you have come.” – Miya Yamanouchi
- “A non-reading society is nothing but a miserable society; a non-reading nation will be nothing but a disgrace of all other nations!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
- “A man who is deprived of criticisms is a miserable and a poor man; a man who ignores or refuses or fears criticisms is a foolish man!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
- “I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.” – Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- “I don’t want to be lonely, but I don’t want to be miserable either.” – Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
- “Ducane knew that Willy had looked forward to this visit. He knew too that the visit was rendering Willy unspeakably miserable.” – Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good
- “The moment you think that your destiny is predetermined, you become a miserable loser! Trust your own power so that you can shape your own destiny!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
- “I’ve been so unhappy for years, so unhappy . . . I don’t understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive.” – Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
- “I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.” – George Gordon Byron
- “And I am the most miserable man alive, and more so because no one at this dinner table has the slightest notion of what’s tearing me up.” – André Aciman, Enigma Variations
- “Your life will be colourful if you just add colours to your life! It is your own decisions that will determine to have a miserable or a marvellous life!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
- “The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.” – Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
- “Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another.” – Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
- “She knows what it is to be sad and miserable, but those emotions are almost enjoyable. They throw moments of happiness and laughter into sharper relief.” – Simon Mawer, The Glass Room
- “May my haters live very long to see my continued success and make their lives miserable.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
- “If you decide to follow all laws of your country and society, you will end up making yourself miserable like a slave owned by several thousand masters.” – Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness
- “But the thing about people, Kell had discovered, is that they didn’t really want to know. They thought they did, but knowing only made them miserable.” – Victoria Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic
- “I didn’t want to be an immigrant. I was forced to be an immigrant. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French writer, said that the powerful and the happy never go into exile. He was right.” – Jorge Ramos
- “Choose carefully the battles you fight and the things you get yourself involve into, before you die trying to help people who likes and enjoy being angry, sad and miserable.” – De philosopher DJ Kyos
- “Some people who have been sentenced for life for crimes they did not commit are usually blissful, whereas many people who can go to any part of planet earth are usually miserable.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Es curioso como juzgamos a los demás y no nos damos cuenta de lo miserable de nuestro desdén hasta que nos falta, hasta que nos los quitan. Nos los quitan porque nunca han sido nuestros.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- “I can only see life as this most miserable accident that I have been forced to endure simply because I refuse to see it as the most astounding plan that I have been privileged to engage.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “To his distress, the Queen suddenly “burst into a passion of weeping and said it was plain [she] was to be miserable as long as [she] lived, whatever [she] did.” – Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
- “Poverty can’t make you miserable; only a bad character and a weak spirit can do that.” – John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
- “The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.” – Jane Goodall
- “You’re back where you swore yourself you wouldn’t be The familiar shackles you can’t tell from your own skin Your head’s under water when you learned to swim On a road to hell, congratulations, you’re free…” – Sanhita Baruah
- “And once Father Lucas said to me, ‘Be simple, Matthew, life is a simple book, and an open book, read and be simple as the beasts in the field; just being miserable isn’t enough – you have to know how.” – Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
- “Sad and miserable people will hate you for being happy and will hate the things your doing or the things that makes you happy. It has nothing to do with what you did to them or what you didn’t do to them.” – De philosopher DJ Kyos
- “The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own.” – RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 1995
- “Then it hasn’t been love,” said May Bartram. “Well, I at least thought it was. I took it for that–I’ve taken it till now. It was agreeable, it was delightful, it was miserable,” he explained.” – Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle
- “The growth of Sentiment is the increase of suffering; man is never entirely miserable until he finds out how wronged he is and fancies that he sees far ahead a possible freedom.” – Charles Godfrey Leland, Aradia: Gospel of the Witches
- “Life presents us with moments of decision—crossroads where we either choose a new direction and move on, or cling to what we already have and be miserable.” – Mary Buchan, Over iT: How to Live Above Your Circumstances and Beyond Yourself
- “A relationship will either make the majority of your life happy or miserable. It is important to take your time and make sure that it is a wise choice before making a commitment.” – Pamela Cummins, Psychic Wisdom on Love and Relationships
- “The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.” – Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
- “I am so miserable, there are so many questions, I can see no way out and am so wretched and feeble that I could lie forever on the sofa and keep opening and closing my eyes without knowing the difference.” – Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice
- “My mom stares at him in disbelief. “This is thanks to your schemes. You pressured her to choose you . . . to choose Wonderland over her other side. What did you think would happen?” Morpheus hunches lower, miserable.” – A.G. Howard, Ensnared
- “It’s easy to say that people focusing on the bad is what makes them miserable. What’s not easy is to take a life full of misery and find the joy. While there may be moments of levity, never assume they can make me truly happy.” – Leah Alvord
- “Truthfully, there’re only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won’t care if you’re happy, only if you’re miserable like they are. They eat that shit up.” – Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
- “The limitation of humans is that we have collectively witnessed facts on this planet only for the last 100 years. For the period before, we are compelled to interpret facts from the perceptions of our past generations.” – Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz
- “The most miserable people are those that care only about themselves, understand their own drama and see only their own perspective.” – Shannon L. Alder, The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Bible: Spiritual Recovery from Narcissistic and Emotional Abuse
- “Coraline patted its hairless head. . . ‘Poor thing,’ she said. ‘You’re just a thing she made and then threw away.’ The thing nodded vigorously; as it nodded, the left button-eye fell off and clattered on to the concrete floor.” – Neil Gaiman, Coraline
- “There’s one of those stupid Facebook memes. The ones with silly phrases, that get tons of “likes.” It goes something like this: “What makes you miserable in life is the mental image you have of how things should happen.” – Alberto Madrigal, Un lavoro vero
- “MISERABLE Release the toxic and infectious- Spreaders of misery, Souls destroying souls- And poisonous liars. Awaken from the hallucinations- And take back your heart. Reclaim your self-esteem- And leave the toxic be.” – Giorge Leedy, Uninhibited From Lust To Love
- “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.” – Lee Goldberg, Mr. Monk on the Couch
- “I always hated…all sad songs. I thought they made happy people miserable. Now I think I understand them better. Bards write them because they can’t hold them back. Sadness has got to flow out or it gets stuck and turns bitter.” – Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder
- “The more conscious of our time we become, the more we start doing things that make us joyful instead of making us miserable – spending more time with friends and family and appreciating ourselves and others for the kind of character that they have.” – Todd Perelmuter
- “Some people are born miserable, some people choose misery and the rest of us have it forced upon us by our environments. It doesn’t matter how you got there – what matters is that you can get out of it.” – Kim Kiyosaki
Wrapping Up
No matter what kind of situation you find yourself in, never forget that it is possible to break free from the cycle of misery. With these 100 miserable people quotes, we hope they will help remind you that there is always something good in life, and it’s important to focus on those positive things. Don’t give into misery, and stay positive no matter what. Good luck!
