Misery Quotes · Page 35

All alone I'm destined to be With misery my only company...!

— Paritoshik Sharma

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

— Plautus

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

— Sebastian Horsley

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

— William Cobbett

“That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.”

— Stefanos Livos

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.

— Luc de Clapiers

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

— Edmund Burke

“not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery.”

— Maya Angelou

“It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of…

— Harriet Brown

“It's funny how you repeat behavior, even when you know it's bad for you, because it's the only thing you know. It's…

— Courtney Robertson

“Misery will not come to the one who does not deceive his own Self. Miseries arise because one deceives one’s own Self.”

— Dada Bhagwan

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick…

— Anna Akhmatova

Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger,…

— Rajneesh

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we…

— Joseph Butler

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.

— Washington Irving

Four years ago on this very day I tried to take my own life. And I said, "Zach, do it in front…

— Zach Galifianakis

Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home…

— John Fante

“It is just as if you were expecting one million dollars and suddenly you come across a ten dollar note. You fall…

— Osho

“Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history…

— Victor Hugo

What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death.…

— John Piper

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare all our miseries, whose support and help we implore…

— John Knox

Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is…

— Victoria Woodhull

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The…

— Carson McCullers

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

— Charles Darwin

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

I wish I could meet someone who understood even the dustiest corners of my mixed up soul. x

— JezzSwaG

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

— Christian Bale

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

— Thomas Carlyle

I'm a bit bored of going to the gym! I'm like, 'Someone put me out of my misery - I can't do…

— Mike Colter

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

— Nancy Mitford

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

— Victor Hugo

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

— Publilius Syrus

“The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Happiness exists only because it's being supported by the misery of others.”

— Fuyumi Soryo

“People say misery loves company, but I think it’s like that with anger too.”

— Angie Thomas

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

— Victoria Abril

I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.

— Ian Bogost

Wherever socialism spread, misery followed - and still follows.

— Greg Gutfeld

Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.

— Charles Platt