Misery Quotes · Page 19

It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world.

— Swami Vivekananda

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

— Meat Loaf

A few happy days with the wrong person isn't worth a lifetime worth of misery.

— Sonya Parker

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

— Franz Liszt

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

— Aeschylus

Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.

— Henry Rollins

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

— Ambrose Bierce

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

— Grant-Lee Phillips

Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in…

— Thomas de Quincey

“All your worst miseries or blissful moments happen because of truthfulness ... In balance, being always truthful, as a resolve, tends to…

— Sandeep Sahajpal

“An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O…

— Bhagavad Gita

“Where one sees another, one hears another so long as there are two, there must be fear, and fear is the mother…

— Swami Vivekananda

Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either…

— Pope John Paul II

As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up…

— Katharine Whitehorn

A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den…

— Anonymous

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its…

— Anonymous

I haven't a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Lonely Balcony The deterioration brought by weariness was visible. Its burden of abandonment can be perceived at a glance. The balcony ache…

— iqra iqbal

“Don’t play old tapes. Just cut the very root, just drop the whole idea of old patterns and old habits and start…

— Osho

Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O…

— Swami Vivekananda

“If misery results within you, it is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts one’s own self) and when someone suffers from painful result…

— Dada Bhagwan

Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils,…

— Samuel Johnson

One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor,…

— Jacques Ellul

A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in…

— Terry Hayes

“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?”

— Mary Shelley

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

— Theodore Dreiser

Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery

— Anne Frank

You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs.

— Elvis Costello

They say misery loves company, that's when you should make your exit…

— Tru_Muse

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.

— Swami Vivekananda

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited all.”

— Joan Robinson

“I hereby propose the term “miserize”, as a verb for misery – referring to “to cause misery”.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

— Toni Cade Bambara

“If you misuse your youth, you get misery when you are old.”

— Amit Kalantri

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

— Thomas Malthus

“money came from human misery and death and despair, as always it does.”

— Taylor Caldwell

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

— Ann Rinaldi

“Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.”

— Anthony Liccione

Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.

— Robert Green Ingersoll