Miserable People Quotes are a reminder of how negativity can take over a person’s life and affect those around them as well. These quotes provide clarity on the traits and behaviors of individuals who are perpetually unhappy, often revealing the underlying reasons for their unhappiness.
By considering these quotes, we can better navigate our relationships with unhappy people, ensuring that their negativity does not affect our own happiness
1. “The worst part about being miserable is not knowing if you’ll ever be happy again.” – Terri Guillemets
2. “Misery loves company.” – John Ray
3. “The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.” – William Shakespeare
4. “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.” – Markus Zusak
5. “The miserable man makes the most of his misery, and the happy man the most of his happiness.” – Alan Cohen
6. “Miserable people love to make other people miserable.” – Russell Anthony Gibbs
7. “The miserable man makes everybody else as miserable as he is.” – Elbert Hubbard
8. “Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.” – Zig Ziglar
9. “Misery is wasted on the miserable.” – Louis C.K.
10. “Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.” – Simone Weil
11. “If you want to be miserable, think about yourself.” – Charles Kingsley
12. “Miserable people cannot be consoled; they want everyone to be as miserable as they are.” – Patricia Briggs
13. “The most miserable pettiness proceeds from the belief that one is absolutely right.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
14. “A miserable man spreads misery around him.” – Victor Hugo
15. “Miserable people cannot be saved by someone else’s happiness.” – Joseph Campbell
16. “The miserable person cannot find joy in the beauty around them.” – Daisaku Ikeda
17. “The most miserable people are those who care only about themselves, understand only their own troubles and see only their own perspective.” – Wade Boggs
18. “Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.” – Addison Mizner
19. “It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.” – Seneca
20. “The only way to escape the misery of the world is to stop thinking about it.” – Jorge Luis Borges
21. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
22. “The miserable man finds comfort in knowing that there are more miserable men.” – Elbert Hubbard
23. “Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy.” – Robert Anthony
24. “People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
25. “The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.” – Booker T. Washington
26. “Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.” – Bryant McGill
27. “A man who has nothing to do with his life is miserable.” – Leonardo da Vinci
28. “Misery can only be quelled but never cured.” – T.H. White
29. “People who make themselves miserable to make others happy are the most miserable of all.” – Marty Rubin
30. “A man is as miserable as he thinks he is.” – Seneca
31. “Miserable are the people who live only for themselves.” – Joyce Meyer
32. “Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.” – Edgar Allan Poe
33. “The greatest of all sins is to be miserable.” – Arthur Rimbaud
34. “There are people who have money and people who are rich.” – Coco Chanel
35. “A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.” – Joseph Addison
36. “Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf.” – Philip Larkin
37. “To be truly miserable, one must have the capacity to feel deeply.” – George Eliot
38. “Misery is a communicable disease.” – Martha Graham
39. “We are more often frightened than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” – Seneca
40. “Misery is caused by our reaction to reality, not reality itself.” – James Allen
41. “The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.” – Martha Washington
42. “Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.” – Boethius
43. “Misery does not love company. Misery calls for people who don’t have a miserable life.” – Abhaidev
44. “Misery has enough company, and it never feels lonely.” – George Herbert
45. “Misery is the river of the world.” – Tom Waits
46. “The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.” – Aesop
47. “Misery seeks companionship, and there is little joy in solitude.” – Daphne du Maurier
48. “The misery of some is always cherished by others.” – Jean de La Fontaine
49. “Misery nourishes your ego – that’s why you see so many miserable people in the world.” – Osho
50. “A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.” – Chinese Proverb
51. “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
52. “Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.” – Don Herold
53. “To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving.” – Woody Allen
54. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
55. “What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.” – François de La Rochefoucauld
56. “Misery is a thing in itself and is not made better or worse by any comparison.” – Henry Fielding
57. “Misery is the highest degree of self-love.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
58. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde
59. “Man’s misery springs from the fact that he cannot pass his time alone.” – Blaise Pascal
60. “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” – William Shakespeare
61. “A miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.” – Albert Einstein
62. “Misery is the company of the wretched.” – John Dryden
63. “The most miserable people are those who care only about themselves, understand only their own troubles, and see only their own perspective.” – Wade Boggs
64. “A heart filled with bitterness turns into misery.” – Anthony T. Hincks
65. “A miserable heart means a miserable life; a cheerful heart fills the day with song.” – Proverbs 15:15
66. “Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.” – Boethius
67. “He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.” – Voltaire
68. “There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.” – Dante Alighieri
69. “Misery is the shadow of love. To hold someone close is to acknowledge and accept the potential for pain.” – Unknown
70. “The miserable man lives in self-inflicted exile from the joy of others.” – Unknown
71. “Misery and ignorance are always compatible.” – Joseph Addison
72. “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” – Bette Midler
73. “He who has everything is lonely. He who has nothing is miserable.” – Alan Cohen
74. “In misery we seem aware of our existence, which is forgotten in happiness.” – Mason Cooley
75. “The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.” – Eric Hoffer
76. “In the cellars of affliction, we discover the gold of character.” – James M. Barrie
77. “It is the nature of the miserable to envy the happy.” – Livy
78. “Misery is a match that never fails to find kindling.” – Henry Adams
79. “It is seldom that misery catches a man except when he is at rest.” – Charles Kingsley
80. “The miserable man thinks all his troubles fly only to him, like feathers, to a crow.” – Sir Philip Sidney
81. “Misery is a visitor that comes uninvited, but you don’t have to offer it a seat.” – Unknown
82. “Misery thrives in darkness; it vanishes in the light of day.” – Og Mandino
83. “To be miserable is to have a heart incapable of joy.” – Thomas Jefferson
84. “Misery is a river of tears that never runs dry.” – Unknown
85. “Miserable people focus on the things they hate about their life. Happy people focus on the things they love about their life.” – Zig Ziglar
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