Desiderius Erasmus Quotes

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?

If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.

Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.

All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.

Larry David called me and said, "You can never watch The West Wing again. Either the show is going to be great without you and you're going to be miserable, or the show is going to be less than great without you and you're going to be miserable." So I had them send a tape of the first episode that I didn't do. I put it in the VCR and I don't think I got 15 seconds in before I leapt up and slammed it off! It felt like I was watching somebody make out with my girlfriend. I've never seen a West Wing episode in seasons five, six or seven.

Unfortunately this is where comedy works, where people are the most miserable.

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey.

What is more miserable than discontent?

The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.

But even in her laughter there was something missing. She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live.

What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.

If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

I am malicious because I am miserable

Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?

There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

We feel most small, we feel most challenged when we're only focusing on ourselves. Because even when you fulfill yourself, meaning you get what you think you want, you still find yourself in a position where it's never enough.