Misery Quotes

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.

Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.

The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

The bliss of the Creator forever permeates all of creation, and it is only in the forgetting that misery exists.

Misery loves company which is ironic because it rarely throws dinner parties.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed.

I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone.

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.

I'm evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I'm evil, so don't mess around with me.

The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.

The whole "misery loves company" thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the other person is doing fine is simply too much to bear.

Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

The childless escape much misery.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.

I know a lot of ways to happiness! I also know some pretty fast shortcuts to misery.

People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell you at boot camp in the higher worlds.

How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.

Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.

Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. We have to assume responsibility for our role. To run away from it causes misery.

Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

False fancy brings real misery.

A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.

Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.