Misery Quotes · Page 37

Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.

— Ruth Wisse

I refuse to entertain anyone's misery. Anything we entertain feels welcome and stays!..

— Anonymous

What else is there for the rich to do, If not to relieve the poor of their misery?

— Pancho Villa

“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The amassing of evil brings misery. The accumulation of good brings blessings.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

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

— Thomas Carlyle

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

— Jean de la Bruyere

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Not all pains are misery, we experience some to prepared us for the goods to come, so we can do whatever it…

— Blaze Olamiday

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to…

— Thornton Wilder

Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery;…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Jealousy means ego, jealousy means unconsciousness. Jealousy means that you have not known even a moment of joy and bliss; you are…

— Rajneesh

People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently,…

— Elsa Maxwell

Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it,…

— Mark Rothko

I don't thrive on misery myself. I mean, I've obviously created during a time of misery, but I also create from a…

— Tig Notaro

Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the…

— Wislawa Szymborska

Without love and kindness life is cold, selfish and uninteresting and leads to distaste for everything. With kindness, the difficult becomes easy,…

— Charles Wagner

When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and…

— Richard Baxter

The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering…

— David Walker

“Misery was a creeping thing, like the dew settling on grass or the cold fingers of frost meeting me in my bed…

— Kat Dunn

Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is…

— Cato the Younger

“For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, with no…

— Yoko Ogawa

“ What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be…

— Christopher Hitchens

Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on…

— Phineas Quimby

“Each time we make a choice we are either moving toward freedom and prosperity or bondage and misery.”

— Cameron C. Taylor

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

— Martha Washington

Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.

— Hugo Chavez

Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.

— Sharon Shinn

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his…

— Seneca the Younger

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

— Anonymous

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

— Chanakya

“even a drop of happiness could color a whole well of misery.”

— Starhawk

You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.

— Rajneesh

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.

— Mark Kurlansky

Misery is when grown-ups don't realize how miserable kids can feel.

— Suzanne Heller

“If I ran the world, people who didn’t read would be the first to go. Boom. Put them out of their misery.”

— Skyla Madi

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

— Dean Koontz

Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.

— Fanny Burney

“If you want to guarantee yourself a life of misery, marry somebody with the idea of changing them”

— Peter Bevelin