Misery Quotes · Page 21

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

— Anne Frank

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.

— Geoff Mulgan

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

— Frederick Douglass

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

— Daniel Kahneman

The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.

— Dalai Lama

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

— Nigella Lawson

“We will never know true bliss while our lifestyles are reliant on the misery and suffering of others.”

— Mango Wodzak

Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.

— Georg Ebers

I believe that our friends among the dead really mind us and look out for us. Often there might be a big…

— John O'Donohue

For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal joy to which may…

— Jan Hus

“Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to…

— P.N. Elrod

I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add…

— Lord Byron

“He drank in her misery like fine wine, savoring every drop, letting it soothe his mind, his tension flowing out the fingertips…

— Verity Ant

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman,…

— Eric Hoffer

Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune…

— Swami Vivekananda

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too…

— Paul Hamilton Hayne

I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to… In that kind of world, [the] only place…

— Muhammad Yunus

“What rent do you pay here?" I inquired. "I don’t know,—what is it, Sam?" "All we make," answered Sam. It is a…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

The way that the stories go in the Snicket books is just the way stories naturally go to me. They're full of…

— Daniel Handler

New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the…

— John Gunther

“I had to ask myself why I'm continuing to engage in behavior I knew hurt. What was my payoff? Did it confirm…

— Paula Heller Garland

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional.…

— Barbara

“I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.”

— Chamisso, Adelbert von

“I felt miserable. When Keats felt miserable he always put on a clean shirt. But he was a poet.”

— Jeanette Winterson

We do yoga to make life more beautiful.. to stop misery from entering our world.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

— William James

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

— S. N. Goenka

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

— George Washington

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.”

— George Gissing

It's only happy hour if a hot girl is sharing your drinks. Otherwise it's just drowning your misery.

— Nikhil Saluja

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

— John Keats

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

— Tim Hansel

“Max attacks Misery with the kind of vigor only reserved for really dirty ovens”

— Sarah Castille

“But now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood.”

— Mary Shelley

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

— Charlie Chaplin

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

— Caitlin Moran

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

— W. Somerset Maugham