Misery Quotes · Page 39

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

— Ambrose Bierce

Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.

— Henry Rollins

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

— Aeschylus

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

— Franz Liszt

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

— Theodore Dreiser

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

— Grant-Lee Phillips

“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?”

— Mary Shelley

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

2 years being a foster kid and I havet spent a holiday or my birthday with my 5 younger sibling, I miss…

— Jon Hawes

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite…

— Christina Stead

So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.

— John Keats

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

— Ludwig von Mises

When we talk about carpet bombing ISIL, that's what it looks like, creating huge numbers of civilian casualties, which increases the numbers…

— John R. Allen

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I…

— Victor Hugo

Iàsmile a lot because I don't want people to see how broken I am inside, but sometimes I wish that someone would…

— Anonymous

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin…

— Thomas Paine

“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent…

— Adam Smith

Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or…

— Euripides

Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God's will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the…

— Kevin DeYoung

What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism…

— Errico Malatesta

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of…

— Anonymous

“The misery is what should concern us: the death, rage and distress of others always comes back to haunt us. Especially when…

— Marc Vachon

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

— William Morris

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Misery not only loves company, it derives validation from it.”

— Will Bowen

Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?

— Anonymous

“for laughter is the perfect medicine for the tortured heart, the balm for misery,”

— Dean Koontz

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery

— Francis Picabia

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

— Simon Hoggart

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

— Robert Southey

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

— John Green

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

— Dada Bhagwan

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