Misery Quotes · Page 21

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

— Jonah Goldberg

At least I know what I feel when I'm miserable. It's like a sense of peace to me.

— Mudcat

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

— Boyle Roche

“There is no greater sorrow than thinking back upon a happy time in misery--”

— Dante Alighieri

A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean

— Thomas Jefferson

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

— Jerry Stahl

Happy people find a way to live with their problems, and miserable people let their problems stop them from living.

— Sonya Parker

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty

— Simon Bolivar

Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of…

— George Osborne

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our…

— Jenny Offill

“Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present…

— Haruki Murakami

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing…

— Jerome K. Jerome

There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don’t have all the time in the world, we…

— Craig Stone

They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.

— Hal Elrod

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Once you start ignoring your enemies they will be disappointed because they will no longer have the POWER to make you angry…

— Sonya Parker

Attachment is misery, but from the very beginning the child is taught for attachment. The mother will say to the child, "Love…

— Rajneesh

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have…

— C. S. Lewis

At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the…

— Henry George

To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked…

— Eduardo Galeano

“Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of…

— Anonymous

What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which…

— Georg Brandes

Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory…

— Harold Rosenberg

“Dwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Sometimes its better to feel anger and agony rather then misery.

— Deanah Wilkins

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

— Margaret Drabble

“Dialogue is about freeing human beings from the beliefs and attitudes that make human beings miserable.”

— Oli Anderson

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

— Montgomery Clift

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

— Woody Allen

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

— Cormac McCarthy

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

— Honore de Balzac

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

— Don Roff

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

— Samuel Johnson

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Wordless, it rises and falls in hemidemisemitones of unearthly misery. The dirge of the damned”

— Edward Abbey

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

— Dante Alighieri

“the misery of war represented the world’s only truly universal language. Its”

— Omar El Akkad

“For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, is full of misery”

— Sophocles

God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.

— Timothy Keller