Misery Quotations | Page 5

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.

Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

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

Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.

You can,t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.

If life is misery, why do we endure it?

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

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

There's no misery in not being loved, only in not loving.

You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery!

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what it is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery.

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown.

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.

Without bread all is misery.

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

I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.

If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.

Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.

Misery makes sport to mock itself.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

Such is the constitution of man that labor may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body

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

Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred

When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

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

Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery

A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery

I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

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.

Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,Since riches point to misery and contempt?

But misery still delights to trace / Its semblance in another's case.

As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.

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

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

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.

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

The childless escape much misery.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

We make our days pleasant or miserable. If we insist on being miserable, irritable and nasty, more than likely the day will give us exactly what we give it. A day is too valuable to waste on misery and unhappiness.

Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending

No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

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 no Mystery so great as Misery.

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

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

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.

all the people who are condemned to misery in all parts of the world.

If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.

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

You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it.

frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.