Misery Quotes
If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.
The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.
Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.
So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.
The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.
All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.
religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy.
I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own
A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery
To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now
If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.
Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.
Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.
I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.
Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.