“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.”

“I was looking for a job and then I found a job, and heaven knows I'm miserable now.”

“I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.”

“What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?”

“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.”

“I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.”