Misery Quotes · Page 20

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

— Spike Milligan

The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.

— Swami Vivekananda

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.

— William Cowper

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

— Matt LeBlanc

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

You have two choices in life: you can stay single and be miserable, or get married and wish you were dead.

— Nikhil Saluja

Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable.

— Rajneesh

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get…

— Anonymous

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children…

— Edvard Munch

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be…

— Blaise Pascal

If you don't take yourself seriously, you will die joyfully. If you take yourself seriously, you will go through a lot of…

— Jaggi Vasudev

All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the…

— Ruth Pitter

In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to…

— Samuel Johnson

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy…

— Josh Billings

So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she…

— Alphonsus Liguori

We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the…

— Anonymous

But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other…

— Christopher Paolini

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by…

— Anonymous

Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if…

— Samuel Johnson

“Abandoned. The word alone sends shudders down a sensitive spine, troubling the thoughts of pained souls as their hurt swells in ripples.…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen…

— Charles Hodge

“Take the responsibility into your own hands, it is your life. So do whatsoever you like to do, ant never do anything…

— Osho

Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her…

— John Cheever

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

— Anthony Powell

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

— Jenim Dibie

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

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

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

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

— PZ Myers

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Henrik Ibsen

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

— George Eliot

“God has never experienced misery. The one, who becomes estranged from God, has misery.”

— Dada Bhagwan

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

— Joan Rivers

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

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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