Misery Quotes · Page 36

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

— Decimius Magnus Ausonius

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

— Aldous Huxley

You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.

— Anthony Marra

Happiness comes from moving toward something. When you run away, ofttimes you bring your misery with you.

— Michael J. Sullivan

Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

The greatest misery does not stop Me from uniting Myself to a soul, but where there is pride, I am not there.

— Mary Faustina Kowalska

Seeing you happy is enough for me than seeing you lonely living in misery.. Damn it kills me..

— Joanne Lobedica

If you try to control everything, and then worry about the things you can't control, you are setting yourself up for a…

— Suman Rai

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of…

— Samuel Richardson

It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there…

— Graham Greene

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused…

— Sonya Hartnett

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that…

— David D. Burns

War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant…

— Jacque Fresco

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you…

— Izaak Walton

It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which…

— William Graham Sumner

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time…

— C. S. Lewis

Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're…

— Anonymous

There's some that came here never believing they were dead. They insisted all the way that they were alive, it was a…

— Philip Pullman

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls…

— William Morris

“I know for a fact that no matter where I go, the memory and the suffering of not being with you will…

— CSTPimentel

Poverty is not an accident of, sort of, an economic spreadsheet. Poverty is a crime. There are criminals involved. And those criminals…

— Tom Morello

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

“Alas! how many ways does woman’s affection find to work out her own misery!”

— Walter Scott

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“All I was capable of, even deep in misery, was rhetoric and belles-lettres, it was all talk.”

— Knut Hamsun

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

— Homer

Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.”

— Spectator no. 7

We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery.

— Jentezen Franklin

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Most of the misery had been generated by her conventional aspect, and not by her innate sensations.”

— Thomas Hardy

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

— John Bradshaw

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

— Anonymous

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

— Henry Rollins