Misery Quotes

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?

Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Naught so sweet as melancholy.

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.

Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.

God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He will give a happy end to it.

If life is misery, why do we endure it?

Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity.

Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.

Misery and shame are nearly allied.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.

From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.

Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.

I think there's a core of real anger or misery inside every true stand-up comic.

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.

The miserable are sacred.

Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.

I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.

Every time I think that it’s not worth it – that the people in it deserve the misery of their lives – I come across someone who makes me rethink that.

No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so. ~ Inferno

Here you’re just a person…one with a life force that can feed us all. (Misery) Baby, I’m not worth the indigestion. Trust me. (Fang)

This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

From the moment I told her about my dad, it was as if her whole body sighed in relief. As if someone else’s misery comforted her, made her feel as if she wasn’t alone.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

How we are born to invent our own miseries!

Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery

In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both.

We do yoga to make life more beautiful.. to stop misery from entering our world.

I hadn't intended to end up there. I meant to be a serious actor with a beard who wore a lot of black and wanted to share his misery with you.

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and it shall be burned down.

Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.

The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.

As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.

Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world.

No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

All misery and pain come from attachment.