Misery Quotes · Page 33

The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.

— Albert Schweitzer

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

— Joseph Addison

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

— Victor Hugo

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

— Margaret Drabble

There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.

— F.B. Meyer

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

— Philip Sidney

I know a lot of ways to happiness! I also know some pretty fast shortcuts to misery.

— Frederick Lenz

You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery!

— Sara Shepard

Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we…

— Djuna Barnes

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And…

— Blaise Pascal

“The first time it happened, I laid there marveling at the beauty of it, wondering why God would forbid such bliss when…

— Julia Scheeres

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result…

— Charles Dickens

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy…

— Frank McCourt

All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which…

— Robert Byron

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering,…

— Robert Walser

Have you ever had a problem you had to keep to yourself and your tryin but it hurts like hell? It's a…

— Tynisha Keli

...The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded…

— Charlie Chaplin

The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate…

— Niger Innis

Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause…

— Albert Einstein

Enduring habits I hate… Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does…

— Samuel Johnson

I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world,…

— Lily Allen

We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“He is wretched indeed, who goes up and down in the world, without a God to take care of him, to be…

— Jonathan Edwards

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

— Groucho Marx

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

— Louise Erdrich

“You can't count on anyone else for your happiness, nor blame them for your misery.”

— Eden Carson

“Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.”

— Martin Luther

“How could any woman endure a life of misery with such a cheap promise of appreciation after her death?”

— Carolyn Jessop

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

— William Blake

Pleasing others by being someone you are not is a life of MISERY. there can only be YOU to be really happy.

— Anonymous

“Where the slightest pain cannot be felt, the Soul exists there.”

— Dada Bhagwan

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

You have two choices in life: you can stay single and be miserable, or get married and wish you were dead.

— Nikhil Saluja

Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.

— William Cowper

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

— Matt LeBlanc

Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable.

— Rajneesh

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

— Anthony Powell

The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.

— Swami Vivekananda

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

— Carolyn Heilbrun