Misery Quotes

As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.

I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would fall on me and end my misery.

Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery.

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.

I'm the author of my own misery.

My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.

A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

The slippers of the mortal Earth, now touched the chest of the Moon. Oh, it is shameful that the misery of hunger is still continuing as it was in the past.

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.

Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery.

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

Happiness comes from moving toward something. When you run away, ofttimes you bring your misery with you.

What needs to be grasped is that the system itself is the cause of all of the misery in the world. This is a simple but powerful idea.

Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.

The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?

It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.

At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.

Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable.

Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.

Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death, beyond time, beyond misery.

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.

What is marriage now, or what has it ever been? - just a painful suffering, a long suffering, with false smiling faces. It has simply proved to be a misery. At the most it can be just a convenience.

If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].

Misery loves company, but happy is a better friend.