Misery Quotes

Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

Oh we will all fry together when we fry. We'll be french fried potatoes by and by. There will be no more misery When the world is our rotisserie, Yes, we will all fry together when we fry.

It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.

The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's what we get. If we choose misery, we get that, too.

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

Without bread all is misery.

Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.

Misery makes sport to mock itself.

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

Music heals all forms of misery

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.

The art of our necessities is strangeThat can make vile things precious.

When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin.

Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.

You're like a man who loves nothing better than a thick steak but wouldn't last an hour in a slaughterhouse.

Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery.

She gave him a strange maternal grin.For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am introuble here. This woman is not right.

The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."*Fantine

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Either enjoy happiness or enjoy misery. The choice is yours.

It is better to sing songs of hope than to sing songs of misery.

That which cures all worldly miseries, is called ‘Scientific’ Knowledge.

I love death because life hates me.

For the miserable find comfort in the philosophy that not on them alone has evil fallen.

I want to drown in my tears, And my tears are my prayers.

Absence of worldly misery - that is called eternal bliss.

For a brokenhearted person memories are the vital parts of misery

Let us be the wind of love that touches every heart and blows away all of the misery and sadness.

Why do we come to the world, only to suffer and depart? This is a unsolved misery.

All the stress and misery of life comes from fear of loss. Remember that you can never lose anything without gaining something. To avoid misery, concentrate on what you will gain.

For it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the very pain of the misery, and yet to be unable to help.

You are too kind, and I am unused to it. For your own sake, do not stroke my misery. It knows not how to respond, but with a vicious bite.

I have learned that trying to control other people’s opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness.