“I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.”

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh - “I did not know it was possible to be so...” 1

Similar quotes

“Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I understood more than you did.”

J.K. Rowling
Read more

“See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.”

Gillian Flynn
Read more

“I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that's how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat literature. [from "Mingus at the Showplace"]”

William Matthews
Read more

“How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.”

Augustine of Hippo
Read more

“But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?”

Jane Austen
Read more