Misery Quotes

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.

This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?

It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.

When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery.

Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.

Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'.

Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.

God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.

The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.

We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.

Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.