Misery Quotes
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.
To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact reverse of how most people think, speak and act.
Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish
Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?
Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.
It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.
Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others
At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing, save in the fixing of the sight and hearing on that which is invisible and soundless.
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.
Since I only got one life to ive, God forgive me for my sins, let me make it and i'll never steal again, or deal again, my only friend is my misery. Wantin revenge for the agony they did to me.
There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don’t have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time.
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.
Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.
I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.
Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.
The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart.
The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown.
I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks.
Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.