Misery Quotes

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

Complaints bring misery; compliments brings strength.

It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that.

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs.

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

I like to be myself. Misery loves company

Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.