Misery Quotes · Page 19

Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

— Anonymous

“Sometimes, we inflict misery on others no matter how hard we try not to.”

— Lilas Taha

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

— Pretty Little Liars

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.

— Yitzhak Shamir

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

— Carolyn Jessop

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

— Martin Luther

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

— William Blake

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

— Robert A. Burton

All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent,…

— George MacDonald

“Moominpappa: "Tell us all that's happening out in the world!" Snufkin: "Fuss and misery." - from "Moomin and Family Life" comic strip”

— Tove Jansson

There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without…

— John Armstrong

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and…

— Aldous Huxley

The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are…

— Robert Wyatt

If someone makes you miserable more than they make you happy, it doesn't matter how much you love him, you need to…

— Anonymous

In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you…

— Jarvis Cocker

“Shall each man," cried he, "find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I…

— Mary Shelley

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He…

— Anonymous

“Those of us who know not the secret of properly regulating our own existence on this tumultuous sea of foolish troubles we…

— Anonymous

The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that…

— Alan Watts

I have no ambition. I just have a very loving duty given to me in my spiritual heritage of the Himalayan Masters…

— Swami Veda Bharati

It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to…

— Evo Morales

Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that…

— Robert Emmet

Everything comes out of nothingness and goes back into nothingness. Hence there is no need for attachment, because attachment will bring misery.…

— Rajneesh

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

— Eden Carson

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

— Dada Bhagwan

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

— Anonymous

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

— Groucho Marx

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

— Sara Shepard

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Louise Erdrich

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

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

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

— John Milton

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

— Therese of Lisieux

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

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Simphiwe Ntuli

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

— Anonymous