Misery Quotes

I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.

All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them.

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.

Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.

Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

Misery doesn't only love company. It demands it. For this reason, don't walk away from negative people. RUN!

Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.

All pleasures contain an element of sadness.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.

Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.

And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

Seems it's my destiny for love to cause me misery.

Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time - time disappears.

Change only one thing, change from misery to bliss. from sadness to celebration. And it can be done very easily because misery is an unnatural thing.

It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.

What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.

Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.

Misery is the River of the World

The best anti-depressant pill for me would be one the size of a house so you could drop it on me and put me out of my misery.

If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.