Evelyn Waugh Quotes

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

For 30 years, I lived in pure hell.

It's never easy to watch. It's never great to see your friend or teammate put himself through hell.

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.

I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

I know that my life is going to be hell from here on.

Want is misery.

It's not been a pleasant life.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

Living, it's awful for me.

Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.