Misery Quotations | Page 4

No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so. ~ Inferno

Every time I think that it’s not worth it – that the people in it deserve the misery of their lives – I come across someone who makes me rethink that.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.

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.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

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

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.

Misery loves company.

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

Misery travels free through the whole world!

False fancy brings real misery.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

The man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations, well knowing that without liberty life is a misery

The Katrina disaster happened to almost everybody in this newsroom. We're dealing with our own misery as well as trying to tell this story.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

The Atonement is real. As you steadily do the things the Lord would have you do, a change will occur in you, and Satan's ability to lead you into the things that will destroy you and bring misery to you will become lessened.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

You who are taking this responsibility must show unprecedented courage and leadership. You must place the interests of your people first above all other concerns only then will this process, this attempt to break cycle of misery and destitution conflict and violence stand a chance of success,

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

The whole "misery loves company" thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the other person is doing fine is simply too much to bear.

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.

Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.

See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery.

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

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.

We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.

In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

...in the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery...

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.

I'm evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I'm evil, so don't mess around with me.

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.

You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature and could be negotiated readily. Others had almost no curvature and you knew you'd be spending hours turning the corner. Great whopping-big planet-sized miseries.

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery

As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things ...

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.

Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.

No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.

What else is there for the rich to do, If not to relieve the poor of their misery?

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

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

Seems it's my destiny for love to cause me misery.

Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.

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?

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.

It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

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

It is equally important to investigate wellness as it is to study misery.

Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.

Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

Misery is the River of the World

It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

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

The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end of misery and the beginning of ecstasy.

There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don`t have one desire, you have many desires. Not only that you have many desires, you have contradictory desires. If one is fulfilled, the other, which is its contradiction, remains unfulfilled and you are in misery. If the other is fulfilled, then something else remains unfulfilled.

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.

Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.