Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation. — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. — William James Copy Share Image
We do yoga to make life more beautiful.. to stop misery from entering our world. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“Who is the Lord become pleased with? It is with the one who takes on everyone’s miseries and gives happiness to others.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I am the Saudi Arabia of unhappiness. I have so many reserves of misery that you wouldn't understand. I actually think that's… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
If you take racism away from certain people - I mean, vitriolic racism as well as the sort of social racist -… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“He'd had his career, his triumphs. Success had brought him nothing but misery; he couldn't handle it. Success had thrown him in… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here… — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Dark feelings churn inside me, weighing my spirit as if gray clouds were emptying their cold, drenching contents into my being. I… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I felt miserable. When Keats felt miserable he always put on a clean shirt. But he was a poet.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.” — Chamisso, Adelbert von Copy Share Image
Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys. — Georg Ebers Copy Share Image
“We will never know true bliss while our lifestyles are reliant on the misery and suffering of others.” — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety. — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
Misery doesn't only love company. It demands it. For this reason, don't walk away from negative people. RUN! — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
You know what they say about hope. It breeds enternal misery. — From Pretty Little Liars Copy Share Image
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“But now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“Max attacks Misery with the kind of vigor only reserved for really dirty ovens” — Sarah Castille Copy Share Image
Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. — Tim Hansel Copy Share Image
“No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them… — John Keats Copy Share Image
It's only happy hour if a hot girl is sharing your drinks. Otherwise it's just drowning your misery. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy. — Boy George Copy Share Image
