Misery Quotes · Page 29

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

— Jon Krakauer

You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and…

— Swami Satchidananda

“What misery a sensation is! Ecstasy itself, perhaps, is nothing more.”

— Emil Cioran

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

— Bill Crawford

The more opulent a temple, the more miserable is the spirit that lives in it.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

— Anonymous

Any attempt to control one's mind inflicts misery on the controller and the controlled

— Anonymous

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

— Joseph Conrad

I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I…

— Hugh Laurie

I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,'…

— Ruth Glick

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

— D. H. Lawrence

Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life;…

— John Milton

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad…

— Emily Mortimer

Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a…

— Richard Cecil

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and…

— Seneca the Younger

My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the…

— Anonymous

Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and…

— Bruce Friedrich

Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely…

— Obert C. Tanner

I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of…

— Winston Churchill

The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as…

— Aldous Huxley

“How do I stop this misery?” I groaned, scanning the shelves for a cure. “Don’t go out there,” he said flatly. I…

— Ellen Meloy

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is…

— Tryon Edwards

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

— Bertrand Russell

What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

— Mary Oliver

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

— Samuel Johnson

Vance: Misery, sadness, loss of faith, no reason to live... This is perfect for you.

— 500) Days Of Summer

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

— George Eliot

Niggas try to pull me back cause misery loves company. My future so bright but my past is so ugly...

— Anonymous

I wanna take your misery, replace it with happiness but I need your faith in me.

— Tupac Shakur

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Sin spreads misery around it only when there is ground ready for the bad seed.”

— Hesba Stretton

Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.

— John Kendrick Bangs

You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it.

— Joyce Meyer

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

— Sinclair Lewis

Sometime you just have to run to a friend to help you get through all this misery. It will all work out…

— Bridgett

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it…

— Langston Hughes

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

— Walter Raleigh

“They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.”

— Pietro Aretino