Misery Quotes
We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
I can't get divorced because I'm a Catholic. Catholics don't get divorced. They stay together through anger and hatred and festering misery, just like God intended.
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.
If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry.
You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him
Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery.
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.
Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.
All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.
Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
I saw the abyss of my misery; whatever there is of good in me is Yours, O Lord. But because I am so small and wretched, I have a right to count on Your boundless mercy.
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.
Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.
If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.
We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
All the joy the world contains Has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.