Misery Quotes · Page 34

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

— Spike Milligan

Dont let your life be a tape recorder of the misery of the past. You can do nothing about the past.

— Anonymous

The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He…

— Therese of Lisieux

But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

— John Milton

Somepeople have to learn to let bygones be bygones otherwise their lives will be bound with miseries.

— Simphiwe Ntuli

“The agonizing flames of misery can turn the human heart inside your skull into a breeding ground for virtues.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

— Thomas Jefferson

Do you know why God subjects you to so many miseries? That He may bestow on you the riches of heaven.

— Paul of the Cross

We make very little progress when we strive to conquer baser instincts in a good mood. However, vast strides are possible when…

— Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained.…

— Kanye West

“Shaun couldn’t hold the sigh back. The disgustingly shaded contents of the pint glass were going to be his only company. His…

— Sharon Stevenson

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if…

— Paulo Coelho

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery…

— Joseph Conrad

“Having spent time in Hell, he knew that government paperwork was the closest mankind had ever come to achieving true soul-crushing misery.…

— Larry Correia

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of…

— George Bernard Shaw

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst…

— George Eliot

Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little…

— William Hazlitt

One perceives that again and again she has destroyed her life when it was forming into shapes of happiness because of her…

— Rebecca West

Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

You're smiling brighter than you should or maybe its just me, I wish I could. Smile like I used to but that…

— Timothy Ashmore

Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an…

— Fanny Burney

I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting…

— Markus Zusak

I do not think of all the misery, but of the glory that remains. Go outside into the fields, nature and the…

— Anne Frank

“For a few minutes the anxiety that tormented him had vanished, leaving his mind as serene as the beauty he looked at.…

— Elizabeth Goudge

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

— PZ Myers

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

— Henrik Ibsen

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

— Anonymous

'Misery' left a lasting mark on me. When I die, it will be 'Kathy 'Misery' Bates Is Dead.'

— Kathy Bates

Being any kind of happy is better than being miserable wanting somebody you can't have.

— Anonymous

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

— T. E. Lawrence

“Transiting through time Like an apology In search Of its mistake.”

— Jenim Dibie

“How can one be free from miseries?’ – this life has to be lived to know only this.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Listening to people howl in misery is not one of my favourite pastimes.”

— John Green

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

— Robert Southey

I'll let a mystery gas out of my blistery ass Just to disrupt the misery of history class.

— MC Paul Barman

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

— Joanna Field

My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery.

— Joan Rivers

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

— George Eliot