Misery Quotes

ObamaCare is creating nothing but misery for everybody.

No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.

As long as you don't compliment yourself, your environments and your job, you will always be miserable. Complaints bring misery, compliments brings strength.

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.

We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.

I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.

In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.

No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.

I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.

To fully appreciate the music, you have to see the misery.

For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.

Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him. "A fine pair we make,” he said. "Yeah.

Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses where nothing's real except the crushing, omnipresent misery n pain in your mind n body.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]

It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.

Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

As Bernie Sanders himself said, you know, the [Donald] Trump movement reflects the economic despair and misery that's been inflicted not only on the American people but people around the world.

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.

Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.

If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.

No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.

With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

Life: in all it's pain, misery, grandiosity and glory. I sing for myself, yet if others truly find inspiration through my words, then I have accidently done something brilliant in my life.

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

Our Father in Heaven does not wish us to cower. He does not want us to wallow in our misery. He expects us to square our shoulders, roll up our sleeves, and overcome our challenges.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.