Misery Quotations | Page 3

Santiago will be here. I've got some fresh misery for him.

Puppy mills create misery for dogs and pain for the unwitting purchasers of the animals, and they indirectly deny suitable homes for animals in need. There are millions of healthy, adoptable animals available from shelters and breed rescue organizations.

After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience.

despite this positive news, Kerry continues his misery tour and furthers his efforts to talk down the growing economy.

Apparently feeling that Kerry had not emanated enough negativity while on his pessimism and misery tour this week, the Kerry campaign e-mail asked contributors to give at the level best reflecting their anger at the president. Sounds like a fun group to be around.

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.

There is no way that increased gas prices at the pump could have been reflected in two days after the hurricane with spikes of 30 to 50 cents per gallon, ... It is shameful and unconscionable that these oil companies are making profits off people's misery with this hurricane.

They're not seeing the misery in their own families every day. We hide the poor in segregated neighborhoods, so it's easy to lose sight when you're zipping on the expressway every day to your job, then zipping back to the suburbs at night. You're seeing them at reunion time or when somebody calls up for some help. But now it's been made graphic to them. A lot of black people saw black poor people on television like everybody else.

It's a fair deal because it avoids any more trauma and misery for the Weinstein family.

It is wild out there -- there's a lot of misery on the weather map from coast to coast to coast. We'd sent out search parties looking for winter and we finally found it, and it's here, and it's beginning to bite us deep and hard.

It is true that there is much unresolved in my heart and up until now I haven't been very patient. It is true that I have been searching for the answers and not living the questions. I also hope that one day in the future I will live the answers. I do know that resolution is out there but for now the emotion of the pursuit of happiness seems unending and unreachable. But I do know that through patience I will be able to unlock the misery and translate the pain into happiness.

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

It's full of depressing details about the children's lives, ... and, I'm sorry to say, it's the longest in the series. So in terms of total misery, it's quite a lot to deal with well, both in terms of the number of pages and the amount of misery per page.

Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.

not only generated misery and poverty but also a great social tragedy that added to institutional instability in the region, provoking the fall of democratically elected governments.

The Family Law Act, which was the child of the disgraceful Senator Lionel Murphy, should be repealed. It has brought death, misery and heartache to countless thousands of Australians. Children are treated like pawns in some crazy game of chess.

The family desired that the matter be resolved without a trial. There's been enough trauma, misery and anguish already.

If Satan can weaken or destroy the loving relationships among members of families, he can cause more misery and more unhappiness for more people than he could in any other way.

If you have that slump the best players in baseball are the ones who get out of those slumps instead of the guy who wallows in misery forever.

I know it is the misery of men; they can make nothing of this till they feel it.

In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite variety and mystery of it.

In the mirror of the cross we have seen all the suffering of humanity today. We saw the suffering of abandoned, abused children ... threats against families, the division in the world in the pride of the rich and the misery of all those who suffer hunger and thirst.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

ObamaCare is creating nothing but misery for everybody.

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.

The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs.

It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been possible... that you could have returned the love of the man you see before yourself- flung away, wasted, drunken, poor creature of misure as you know him to be- he would have been conscious this day and hour, in spite of his happiness, that he would bring you misery, bring you to sorrow and repetance, blight you, disgrace you, pull you down with him

Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.

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

Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life ...

Happiness can be just as contagious as misery....

Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.

Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do what you want. It's the process of working with the materials that you find and discovering what's possible with them.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.

Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

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

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

Misery motivates, not utopia.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

Frugality is misery in disguise.

At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness ...

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

(on Judy Garland) She was a friend of mine, a trying friend, but a friend. That is what I tell myself: She did everything she ever wanted to do. She never really denied herself anything for me. See, I say, she had a wonderful life; she did what she wanted to do. And I have no right to change her fulfillment into my misery. I'm on my own broom now.

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

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.

Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

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.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair, and it can also be a dance. It all depends how deeply ready you are to accept existence, whatsoever it brings.

Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death, beyond time, beyond misery.

Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable.

Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time - time disappears.

If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

Religion exists not because of God or for God; it is because of marriage. Marriage creates so much misery that one has to meditate; meditation is a byproduct. Without marriage, who will bother to meditate? For what? You will be already blissful!

If you are happy, you are happy; nobody asks you why you are happy. Yes, if you are miserable, a question is relevant. If you are miserable, somebody can ask why you are miserable, and the question is relevant - because misery is against nature, something wrong is happening. When you are happy, nobody asks you why you are happy, except for a few neurotics. There are such people; I cannot deny the possibility.

Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.

Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.

Here you’re just a person…one with a life force that can feed us all. (Misery) Baby, I’m not worth the indigestion. Trust me. (Fang)