Misery Quotes · Page 40

“The agonizing flames of misery can turn the human heart inside your skull into a breeding ground for virtues.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Somepeople have to learn to let bygones be bygones otherwise their lives will be bound with miseries.

— Simphiwe Ntuli

But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

— John Milton

The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He…

— Therese of Lisieux

Dont let your life be a tape recorder of the misery of the past. You can do nothing about the past.

— Anonymous

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

— Spike Milligan

“Misery not only loves company, it derives validation from it.”

— Will Bowen

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

— Thomas Carlyle

Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding…

— Philip Sidney

The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery…

— Emma Goldman

“Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused…

— Sonya Hartnett

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that…

— David D. Burns

War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant…

— Jacque Fresco

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but…

— Anthony Bourdain

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in…

— Jurgen Moltmann

She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to…

— Kate Winslet

It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Poverty is not an accident of, sort of, an economic spreadsheet. Poverty is a crime. There are criminals involved. And those criminals…

— Tom Morello

For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There's always a fundamental misery that's with me that I always relate to some bit of loss or something. I don't know…

— Don McLean

Have faith to keep all the commandments of God, knowing that they are given to bless His children and bring them joy.…

— Russell M. Nelson

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the…

— Beilby Porteus

Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such…

— Jonathan Edwards

“The temptation to just crawl up onto the bank and lie there in a huddled mass of misery was almost overwhelming, but…

— Josie Litton

Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

— William Morris

“for laughter is the perfect medicine for the tortured heart, the balm for misery,”

— Dean Koontz

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery

— Francis Picabia

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

— Simon Hoggart

What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?

— Anonymous

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

— Joanna Field

I'll let a mystery gas out of my blistery ass Just to disrupt the misery of history class.

— MC Paul Barman

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

— Robert Southey

“Listening to people howl in misery is not one of my favourite pastimes.”

— John Green

“How can one be free from miseries?’ – this life has to be lived to know only this.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“God has never experienced misery. The one, who becomes estranged from God, has misery.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

— George Eliot