Misery Quotes · Page 13

“We can contain such secret misery, perversion.”

— Ben Marcus

“Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

“Misery needed to believe in a better future.”

— Michael Grant

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.

— Bob Black

Temporary happiness and endless misery suits me well...

— Needa Muy

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

— Aristotle

“Happiness exists where misery doesn't”

— Feroz Bham

“We can't avoid pain, but misery is always a choice.”

— Frederic S. Durbin

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

— Jill Stein

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

— William Hazlitt

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit

— Jonathan Swif

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

— L. Neil Smith

fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.

— Julia McNair Wright

Some friends of mine have started what they call the Misery Club. They just drink and bemoan failed relationships.

— Paul Whitehouse

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

— Judith McNaught

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

— Benazir Bhutto

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and…

— Saint Augustine

The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking…

— Werner Herzog

God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He…

— Robert Herrick

We've seen what violent regime change looks like in Libya and the kind of chaos that can be unleashed. And, indeed, the…

— Rex W. Tillerson

“This was it, a crossroad where a happy home was within her grasp, and on the other side lay years of loneliness…

— Anya Wylde

An attitude of compassion does not mean looking down on someone, pitying them in their misery. Compassion is based on respect. We…

— Daisaku Ikeda

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical…

— Adolf Hitler

“I could not figure out what they were doing in an ice cream shop, since they couldn't possible eat calories. I imagined…

— Leila Sales

He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh…

— Bram Stoker

When we, hijras, started our activism, we had to tell people, "We exist, we are humans. Please give us nothing but our…

— Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for…

— William Saroyan

It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his…

— George Washington

“Tavi spent an eternity in misery, longing for death to bring sweet release from the unrelenting torment. The others gathered at the…

— Jim Butcher

Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just…

— Russell Brand

May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Frugality is misery in disguise.

— Publilius Syrus

“Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.”

— Stephen King

“Happiness was a stranger, but misery was dear old friend.”

— L.H. Cosway

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

— Tom Perrotta

“Good music will make you forget all your misery.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Misery, like yoga, is not a competitive sport”

— Matt Haig

“Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.”

— Christopher Marlowe

There is winning and there is misery.

— Bill Parcells