Misery Quotes · Page 38

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

— John Locke

I want to take your misery; replace it with happiness, but I need your faith in me

— 2Pac

“If I do catch sight of my heart, I'm going to strangle the thing just to put it out of its misery.”

— P. B. Kerr

When I look at you I see the old me. A person in so much pain that they think they can never…

— Sonya Parker

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

— John le Carre

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

— Blaise Pascal

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

— Craig Thompson

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

— Laozi

Then we heard the rumours: that the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the…

— Vincent Klyn

If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home…

— Solon

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to…

— Patrick O'Brian

And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more…

— Edith Wharton

Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives.

— Robert Kennedy

“stop living in misery because you're concerned about how things would look to other people, or because you're too scared to put…

— Lajill Hunt

Your executives liking your show makes all the difference in the world. It's the difference between happiness and misery.

— Rob Thomas

I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But…

— Sigmund Freud

I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist…

— Sufjan Stevens

He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off.…

— Cassandra Clare

Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in…

— Elijah Muhammad

When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care,…

— Adolf Hitler

“One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression. It's not like if you're…

— Mindy Kaling

The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at,…

— Irvine Welsh

“I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my…

— Donna Tartt

I wish I could hate you," he said. His voice was light, his mouth curved in an unconcerned half smile, his eyes…

— Cassandra Clare

“When it becomes above normal, the happiness derived from pudgal (non-Self) feels like misery.”

— Dada Bhagwan

My sense of humour has gone haywire I feed it miseries It laughs at me What a precarious predicament!

— Nick Kler

“Misery can hold back happiness but Laughter can outlast any Tragedy”

— Sonny Cele

“He wished his damn cock would just explode into tiny little pieces and put him out of his misery.”

— J.S. Scott

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

— Steve Harvey

“It was Arthur's welcome alone, I believe, which turned the tide of misery for Merlin.”

— Stephen R. Lawhead

Dance, this is the way they'd love If they knew how misery loved me.

— Fall Out Boy

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

— Anne Frank

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

— Hannah More

“If any help was going to arrive to lift me out of my misery, it would come from the dark side of…

— Robert Bly

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

— John Fowles

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

— Joanne Harris

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

— Joseph Addison

“...bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains.”

— Stuart Turton

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.

— William Shakespeare