Misery Quotes · Page 21

“Misery can hold back happiness but Laughter can outlast any Tragedy”

— Sonny Cele

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

— Steve Harvey

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

— John le Carre

When I look at you I see the old me. A person in so much pain that they think they can never…

— Sonya Parker

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

— Craig Thompson

“When it becomes above normal, the happiness derived from pudgal (non-Self) feels like misery.”

— Dada Bhagwan

My sense of humour has gone haywire I feed it miseries It laughs at me What a precarious predicament!

— Nick Kler

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

— Laozi

We make very little progress when we strive to conquer baser instincts in a good mood. However, vast strides are possible when…

— Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

“Shaun couldn’t hold the sigh back. The disgustingly shaded contents of the pint glass were going to be his only company. His…

— Sharon Stevenson

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained.…

— Kanye West

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review…

— Federico Fellini

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery,…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

I hadn't intended to end up there. I meant to be a serious actor with a beard who wore a lot of…

— Stephen Colbert

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change…

— Anonymous

“The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This…

— Keiko Nobumoto

Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes…

— Rajneesh

If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves,…

— Albert Pike

“If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. We begin so aware and grateful. The…

— Mark Nepo

In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons…

— Jeanette Winterson

What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a…

— Anonymous

As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I…

— Daniel Defoe

So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we…

— David S. Baxter

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

— Blaise Pascal

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

— John Locke

“If you want to guarantee yourself a life of misery, marry somebody with the idea of changing them”

— Peter Bevelin

Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.

— Fanny Burney

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

— Dean Koontz

“If I do catch sight of my heart, I'm going to strangle the thing just to put it out of its misery.”

— P. B. Kerr

I want to take your misery; replace it with happiness, but I need your faith in me

— 2Pac

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

“even a drop of happiness could color a whole well of misery.”

— Starhawk

You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.

— Rajneesh

Misery is when grown-ups don't realize how miserable kids can feel.

— Suzanne Heller

“If I ran the world, people who didn’t read would be the first to go. Boom. Put them out of their misery.”

— Skyla Madi

Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.

— Mark Kurlansky

“These are slum kids, I was a slum kid. Everybody talks like that.”

— red

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”

— Anonymous

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

— Martha Washington