Misery Quotes

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.

But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.

People in misery is what most important in art.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

Misery generates hate.

And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and relaxes not her efforts in our behalf.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.

When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life.

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease.

Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose as a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself.

Misery travels free through the whole world!

An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases.

Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

A lot of guys come up talking about The Waterboy. I get a lot of that. Misery, Delores Claiborne and The Waterboy, those are the main ones I get.

real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end of misery and the beginning of ecstasy.

Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a vehicle for the divine, it can never become the passage for the beyond.