Misery Quotes · Page 39

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

— Matthew Arnold

“So this is pain. So this is wretchedness. So this is misery. I never knew. -Jack”

— Melissa de la Cruz

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”

— Anonymous

“These are slum kids, I was a slum kid. Everybody talks like that.”

— red

And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

— Annie Proulx

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

— Martha Washington

One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness…

— Dean Koontz

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in…

— Jane Austen

I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one,” he said.…

— Patricia Grasso

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you…

— Leon Trotsky

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and…

— Ronald Reagan

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of…

— William Saroyan

What needs to be grasped is that the system itself is the cause of all of the misery in the world. This…

— Michael Yates

Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing,…

— Mabel Collins

“If there's one thing I've discovered, it's that stifling yourself will only lead to more misery. [...] I polluted all other happiness…

— Siobhan Vivian

Everyone is replacedble in contrary to what people think when it comes to their feelings. as long as we're human beings we're…

— Kevin Symphorien

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge…

— John F. Kennedy

“Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself,…

— John Connolly

Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When…

— Roger Delano Hinkins

“What causes misery is always trying to get away from the facts of life, always trying to avoid pain and seek happiness—this…

— Pema Chödrön

“Man cannot cherish his existence any longer than life holds out charms to him: when he is wrought upon by painful sensations,…

— Baron d'Holbach

Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She…

— Reinaldo Arenas

The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.

— William Cowper

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

— Virginia Woolf

“Misery is to happiness as cold is to heat- it rushes through the cracks and blows out the candle.”

— John I. Carswell

“Your misery will cause you to grow and for see the future.”

— Euginia Herlihy

Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.

— William George Jordan

“By not hurting anyone through one's mind, speech and action, all the vows (vrat) are encompassed in this!”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Sometimes it's hard not to let other people's misery seep into your own bones.”

— Gilly Macmillan

“In the world today everything is shared. What kind of misery is it that can't be shared?”

— Don DeLillo

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

— Frances Wright

The economic misery: who passed NAFTA? You know, Bill Clinton signed that with Hillary's [Clinton] support.

— Jill Stein

Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

— Rajneesh

“If misery loves company, I was quickly becoming his best friend.”

— Lilith Darville

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

— William Hazlitt

I've always felt that comedy doesn't just come from misery. It comes from an absurdity around that misery.

— Simon Amstell

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

— Ramana Maharshi

“Even for our enemies in misery- there should be tears in our eyes.”

— Charan Singh