A lot of people live miserably not because their lives are worse than others, but because their repeated negative interpretations of their experiences bring greater pain to their minds than their physical problems.

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.

I come from a long line of miserable people.

In reality of everyday occurrences I’ve had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It’s less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what...

I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less.

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.

Life can only be as blissful or as miserable as we repeatedly interpret it to be.

Sometimes it’s your fragrance that comes to me, out of the blue, on a crowded road in a Sunday afternoon.But more often, it’s memories of us that cross my mind almost every lone evening.All I...

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.

(…) the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own to look back on happily. But when the illusion of absolute identity vanishes...