Misery Quotes

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that.

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.

What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

The economic misery: who passed NAFTA? You know, Bill Clinton signed that with Hillary's [Clinton] support.

O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

To take all that we are and have and hand it over to God may not be easy; but it can be done; and when it is done, the world has in it one less candidate for misery.

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.

Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.

And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very grateful for the plant.

We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

Complaints bring misery; compliments brings strength.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it’s a formula for misery.

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

I was once like you, enlightened and "rational", I too scoffed at lovers, Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery. No one is safe! Watch out.

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

Nine months of misery.