Misery Quotes · Page 28

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

— Joseph Butler

“There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe”

— Holly Black

“Ignore the misery. Custom invites you to ignore the misery." SHOW YOUR TONGUE”

— Gunter Grass

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

— Philip Massinger

“It's often in your deepest misery that brings out your greatest self”

— Thabiso Monkoe

There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.

— Dante Alighieri

When you get so interested in hating things, you'll miss even the things you love.

— Terry Mark

Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery

— Matthew Arnold

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy…

— Elton John

“The most baffling about the human psyche is that even after seeing the misery and suffering all around. He is convinced that…

— Gian Kumar

“The pain that you do not fear, will not come before you at all. Neither do the gansters come, and nor does…

— Dada Bhagwan

In screaming your name cause it the only word that makes sense, I need help cause my alter ego got me backed…

— Timothy Ashmore

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases.

— Joan Robinson

Every time I think that it’s not worth it – that the people in it deserve the misery of their lives –…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that…

— Joyce Carol Oates

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now…

— Bertrand Russell

While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in…

— Benjamin Rush

“Never let critics pour misery into your cup. Never let doubters place hesitation in your steps. Never let cheaters plant suspicion in…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Attachment brings misery, unattachment brings blissfulness. So use things, but don't be used by them. Live life but don't be lived by…

— Rajneesh

Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong…

— Xunzi

“Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of…

— Jane Austen

A church that is deeply aware of it's misery and nakedness before a holy God will cling tenaciously to an all sufficient…

— Michael Horton

Hours pass as I dream to remember the pressure of finally moving to a state of mind where nothing matters. All around…

— Aly Johnson

“And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if only you put yourself…

— Emile Zola

The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.

— Dalai Lama

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

— Daniel Kahneman

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

— Frederick Douglass

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.

— Geoff Mulgan

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

— Anne Frank

Oh, Misery, I have drunk thy cup of sorrow to its dregs, but I am still a rebel.

— Lucy Parsons

“I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own.”

— Katja Millay

Misery and sorrow, I don't want to have anything to do with them. I always want to be happy and cheerful.

— P. T. Usha

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

— Steve Almond

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

— Michael Harrington

I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.

— Walter Savage Landor

Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.

— Adyashanti

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

— Eric Cantona

Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyones misery is their own stupidity and laziness.

— Anonymous

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The only effect of the words of powerless people on the Internet was to inflict misery on other powerless people.”

— Jarett Kobek