Misery Quotes · Page 23

Ive got friends in all the wrong places, and misery loves company. -Toby

— Pretty Little Liars

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Remember, misery is comfortable. It's why so many people prefer it. Happiness takes effort.”

— Anonymous

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

— Arthur Adamov

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

— Victor Hugo

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

— Ralph Steadman

frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.

— Joyce Meyer

Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.

— Rajneesh

Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything.…

— Rajneesh

Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every…

— Swami Vivekananda

I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is…

— Morena Baccarin

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source…

— Bertrand Russell

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do…

— Stefan Zweig

Our Father in Heaven does not wish us to cower. He does not want us to wallow in our misery. He expects…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery,…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can…

— Hermann Hesse

I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the…

— Jeanette Winterson

It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has…

— John Ramsay McCulloch

There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to…

— Cleve Jones

To a child who dies, and to the parents of this child, will you speak, if religion consoles them, in praise of…

— Andre Comte-Sponville

The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it…

— Anonymous

It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything…

— Doris Lessing

It is forever unspeakable that man must suffer so. But you learn to control yourself, to work efficiently. ... I used to…

— Elliott Merrick

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

— Blaise Pascal

Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.

— Hugo Chavez

Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.

— Sharon Shinn

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his…

— Seneca the Younger

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

— Chanakya

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

— Anonymous

“Each time we make a choice we are either moving toward freedom and prosperity or bondage and misery.”

— Cameron C. Taylor

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

— Martha Washington

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I refuse to entertain anyone's misery. Anything we entertain feels welcome and stays!..

— Anonymous

What else is there for the rich to do, If not to relieve the poor of their misery?

— Pancho Villa

Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.

— Ruth Wisse

Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

— Thomas Carlyle

“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The amassing of evil brings misery. The accumulation of good brings blessings.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh