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When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet...

Quote by Francis McCourt about childhood, saints, poverty, miracle, mother, happiness, fire, fire brigade, nothing, things

I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is...

I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.

Quote by Joe Pantoliano about work, actors, good, good luck

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear...

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

Quote by John Milton about opinion, blind

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I...

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

Quote by Woody Allen about humor, people

The miserable have no other medicine.

The miserable have no other medicine.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, medicine

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and...

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about life

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about happiness, age, olderness, moment, life

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in...

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

Quote by Bette Davis

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Quote by Agatha Christie about life, sadness, things

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Quote by Agatha Christie about opinion, sadness, things

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and...

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

Quote by Princess Diana about wealth, happiness

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as...

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Quote by Franz Kafka about philosophy, kiss, air, night, contentment

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

Quote by Theodore Parker about mistery, real estate, injustice, body, soul, death

I'm totally convinced that some people have met me on a bad day and gone away thinking I'm a miserable sod, so I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about people, doubt, thinking, bad luck, bad, day

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains...

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about poverty, wealth, people

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the...

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

Quote by James Tobin about economy, disaster, depression

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you...

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Quote by James Abram Garfield about truth, contentment

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