Misery Quotes · Page 91

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes…

— Josephine Baker

“God,” she cried, “what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth…

— Djuna Barnes

Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish…

— John F. Kennedy

He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“It has taken me four years to figure this out. If we live long enough, we all will experience this. Don’t ever…

— John Passaro

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

— Laozi

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

— Andre Gide

Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery

— Anne Frank

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

People who are not happy with themselves can never be happy for someone else.

— Ritu Ghatourey

A few happy days with the wrong person isn't worth a lifetime worth of misery.

— Sonya Parker

And, in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to…

— Morrie Schwartz

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

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.

— C. S. Lewis

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

— Robert Anton Wilson

The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.

— John Webster

I've always liked reading books that contain funny lines or situations, and maybe because my work is known chiefly for its violence…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again.

— Greg Behrendt

Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives.

— Robert Kennedy

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

— Theodore Dreiser

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

— Aldous Huxley

It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it's the gloom—the cold, dark air—that receives notice. We…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Most comedy comes out of misery.

— Seth Rogen

If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it…

— Primo Levi