A Quote by Jerry Stahl

How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.

Jerry Stahl

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Jerry Stahl
American - Novelist
Born: September 28, 1954

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 is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

Frank McCourt

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

Brett Hull

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.

Woody Allen

If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better in the morning. This, of course, is utter nonsense, because a miserable experience remains a miserable experience even on the loveliest of morning.

Daniel Handler

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell.

Steven Pressfield

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Elizabeth Edwards

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

Carrie Snow

Staying in a hopeless and miserable situation doesn't make you loyal, it just makes you miserable.

The Weeknd

I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

Sonya Hartnett

If you're miserable, make a choice. If you're still miserable, you can choose again.

Martha Beck

I love writing but it's a real pain. It's a miserable process - very satisfying but very miserable.

Vikramaditya Motwane

But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.

Ann Brashares

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

Daniel Handler

At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.

Ambrose Bierce

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

David Levithan

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