Misery quotes

“The white man make many promises to us, yet they keep only one: they promise to take our land, and they take it. You see the suffering and the misery they bring to your people. And now you bring one of them here, to be nursed back to health? Tonto, why?”

Max Cisneros - Second chief

“- Charles: As soon as we get settled, we'll build you a dark room in the basement, okay?
- Lydia: My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room.
- Delia: So you were miserable in New York City, and now you're going to be miserable out here in the sticks. At least someone's life hasn't been upheaved.”
Jeffrey Jones - Charles
Winona Ryder - Lydia
Catherine O'Hara - Delia

“You know, I don't, which I am: happy or miserable. I'm all mixed up.”
Carole Lombard - Hazel Flagg

“Most of the miseries of the world were caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were about.”
Leslie Howard - Ashley - His Son

“- Josh: I think I'd really like to check out Environmental Law.
- Mel Horowitz: Why? You want to have a miserable, frustrating life?”
Paul Rudd - Josh
Dan Hedaya - Mel Horowitz

“When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how my brothers and I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood. The happy childhood is hardly worth telling. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood. And worse still is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”
Andrew Bennett - Narrator

“- Ivan Travalian: Eat it. It's healthy. You'll live longer.
- Kreplich: I have a miserable life. I don't want to live longer.”
Al Pacino - Ivan Travalian
Alan King - Kreplich

“Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?”
Monty Woolley - Sheridan Whiteside

“- Billy Kwan: You just don't think about the major issues. You do whatever you can about the misery that's in front of you. Add your light to the sum of light. You think that's naïve?
- Guy Hamilton: Yup.
- Billy Kwan: It's all right. Most journalists do.
- Guy Hamilton: We can't afford to get involved.
- Billy Kwan: Typical journo's answer.”
Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan
Mel Gibson - Guy Hamilton

“- Kathy Whiting: I was kind of happy, in a miserable kind of way.
- Peter Whiting: Is that worse than being miserable in a happy kind of way?”
Harley Jane Kozak - Kathy Whiting
Bill Pullman - Peter Whiting

“- Mary: It's a metaphor for life, Leo. It's famous. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
- Leo: Bullshit. He's miserable.
- Mary: He doesn't have to be. He accepts his fate.
- Leo: You're telling me if you name is Syphilis and you spend your life lugging a fucking rock up a hill you wouldn't be miserable?”
Parker Posey - Mary
Guillermo Díaz - Leo

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David Niven - Chief Insp. Cyril Willis

“- Ebenezer Scrooge: Why do you show me this? What has it to do with me?
- Ghost of Christmas Present: Are they not of the human race?”

George C. Scott - Ebenezer Scrooge
Edward Woodward - Ghost of Christmas Present

“Funerals, bad marriages, lost loves, lonely beds. That is our diet. We suck that misery and find it sweet. We search for more always. We can smell young boys ulcerating to be men a thousand miles off. And hear a middle-aged fool like yourself groaning with midnight despairs from halfway around the world.”

Jonathan Pryce - Mr. Dark

“All we got is our misery, Joe Kenehan used to say, and the least we could do is share it.”
Will Oldham - Danny Radnor

“People like us are born in little houses and die in little houses, and we've got to find happiness somewhere in between.”
Denis Colin Leary - Francis 'Frank' O'Brien

“The world is either great or wretched, isn't it? So many people are just... finished.”
Alan Rickman - Ed

“Are the daughter's miseries the mother's triumphs?”
Liv Ullmann - Eva

“Human life means very little to me at this point in time. You see, I thrive on misery. In the jungle, misery's all you got. But things are different back here in the world, or so they seem. Nobody wants to talk about pain and suffering. Everybody wants everything to be nice and civil.”
Keith David - Louis Fedders

“Would you like people to make money off your misery?”

Robert Kerman - Professor Harold Monroe