Misery Quotes · Page 18

Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Benjamin Franklin

After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.

— Mason Cooley

It's important to produce economic development. Fundamentalism develops even faster with misery.

— Ali Bongo Ondimba

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

— Edmund Spenser

Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery.

— Thomas Boston

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

— Benjamin Franklin

There is always some kind of misery when you are happy and always some kind of happiness even when you are miserable

— Nidhi Saini

I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been…

— John Kennedy Toole

I am not alone Not beaten down just yet I am not afraid Of the voices in my head Down the darkest…

— Tdg

At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the…

— John Green

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding…

— John Ruskin

Candidates have been telling you that if elected they would 'pull you from this bog hole of financial misery.' Now is a…

— Will Rogers

Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk…

— Dan Miller

Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with…

— Lynn Freed

“The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come…

— Homer

The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no…

— Thomas Carlyle

My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew…

— Quentin Crisp

There is no shortage of ways that people profit indirectly from the misery and cruelty in other places. Even now, the shirts…

— Ben H. Winters

“Misery is a state of unconciousness. We are miserable because we are not aware of what we are doing, of what we…

— Osho

“She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down on…

— George MacDonald

For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else…

— Annie Proulx

Time and time again throughout the latter part of the Cold War, liberals chose a morally perverse pose. They would seek to…

— Mona Charen

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

“Laugh a little Syd," Knox said. "Life is too short for perpetual misery.”

— Alex London

“This of all the misery in the world and be thankful that you are not sharing in it.”

— Anne Frank

One of the greatest of all sources of misery is comparing yourself to others.

— Zhat

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the…

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

When you are miserable, you need something that is even more miserable than you to feel good about yourself

— Elfen Lied

A few smiles every now and then isn't worth a lifetime worth of misery.

— SONYA PARKER

Ive got friends in all the wrong places, and misery loves company. -Toby

— Pretty Little Liars

“So many unhappy women out there. Such a sea of female misery.”

— Howard Jacobson

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

— Ralph Steadman

“Remember, misery is comfortable. It's why so many people prefer it. Happiness takes effort.”

— Anonymous

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

— Victor Hugo

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

— Arthur Adamov

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Joyce Meyer