“She’s sitting right in front of me, but at the same time she’s a million miles away.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”— John Milton, amazon.com
“But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com
“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”— Carol Rifka Brunt, amazon.com
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”— Carlos Castaneda, amazon.com
“Even when you feel like crap, you still want to see him. When you’re feeling at your worst he somehow has a way to make you feel better. Whether you’re sick, sad, or just being crazy, his smile gets you back to normal, or at least feeling like it.”— Nicole Tarkoff, thoughtcatalog.com
“He's never happy around you. He stops joking around with you. He doesn't laugh when you try and mess around with him, or drop one of your inside jokes. He just seems like he's... there.”— Frank, cosmopolitan.com
“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, Dr. Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“He’s so stupid he doesn’t realize how miserable he should be. I envy that.”— BoJack Horseman, netflix.com
“I just wanna have fun and breathe, but I can’t do either one of them when I suffocate myself with depression.”— Lisa M. Cronkhite, amazon.com
“God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in the morning I open my eyes, see the sun once again, and am miserable.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com
“I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience...”— Gary Neville, thesackrace.com
“Everyday on my way to work I contemplate driving past it And never coming back.”— Frank Warren, amazon.com
“I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it’s hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.”— Larry David, twitter.com