Miserability Quotes & Sayings

I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush. — Tatiana Maslany

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius

You're a magnet for mess. I've never seen anything like it.
Lula to Stephanie — Janet Evanovich

What shall I do?" she asked in a small voice.
"Forget your own self," he said.
"But all these years," she urged, "I have so carefully fulfilled my duty."
"Always with the thought of your own freedom in your mind," he said.
She could not deny it. She sat motionless, her hands folded on the pearl-gray satin of her robe. "Direct me," she said at last.
"Instead of your own freedom, think how you can free others," he said gently.
She lifted her head.
"From yourself," he said still gently. — Pearl S. Buck

Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and regulation to keep up with innovation which allowed financial derivatives to spread. — Wen Jiabao

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up. — David Rakoff

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. — William Kennedy

You don't make stupid jokes in art. — Martin Kippenberger

Anything goes on any given Sunday, especially Monday Night. — Jon Gruden

The best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry; His plans are never rushed. — Michael R. Phillips

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life. — Simon Beaufoy

Think of us as symbols - we're the dream that humanity creates to make sense of the shadows on the cave wall. — Neil Gaiman

I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love. — Abbas Kiarostami

When you do not treat yourself the way you want others to treat you, you can never change the way things are. — Rhonda Byrne