I know a lot of ways to happiness! I also know some pretty fast shortcuts to misery. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper. — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“Kashaya (attachment-abhorrence, anger-pride-deceit-greed) means that the relative self (pratisthit atma) within continuously experiences misery, experiences continuous restlessness.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Gloom, despair, and agony on me. Deep, dark depression, excessive misery. If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at… — Susan Heather Copy Share Image
“How could anyone catch all of the beauty in the Present Moment, when, after years of misery, there was suddenly a day… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
I can't get divorced because I'm a Catholic. Catholics don't get divorced. They stay together through anger and hatred and festering misery,… — Lenny Clarke Copy Share Image
“If we focus on the problems of life, we will be paralysed. But we dwell on the promise of God; we find… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Happiness is one pole, sadness is another. Blissfulness is one pole, misery is another. Life consists of both, and life is richer… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Has knowledge of birth control, so carefully guarded and so secretly practiced by the women of the wealthy class - and so… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“I try not to forget that where there is beauty, misery isn't far behind." ~Zane” — Tina Folsom Copy Share Image
“Wherever moha (infatuation due to illusion) is involved, there is misery there.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“What are the miseries in this world, due to? They exist because one’s “vision” is not “clear”.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“One's appreciation of meager comforts, it seems, depends on what misery one has gone through before getting them.” — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
People will come up, and they'll talk about 'Misery.' But a lot of people will talk about 'Waterboy.' — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
It's time to recognize that the EU is beyond reform and deserves to be put out of its misery. — Roger Helmer Copy Share Image
Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Talking to Reva about misery was insufferable. 'Look on the bright side,' was what she wanted everyone to do.” — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery. — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
