Misery Quotes · Page 26

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

— William Cobbett

So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

— William Shakespeare

“Your soul has the innate potential to become the antidote to all the darkness in the world.”

— Abhijit Naskar

You can't make yourself happy bringing misery to other people.

— Anonymous

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

— Douglas Harding

I think there's a core of real anger or misery inside every true stand-up comic.

— Scott Raab

“In separateness lies the world's greatest misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.”

— Buddha

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

— Franz Kafka

To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which…

— James Arthur Ray

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. It…

— William Cobbett

The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery…

— Dumas Malone

At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't…

— Philip Roth

“Love should not be treated as panacea for all happiness and excessive love or love at the wrong place or for wrong…

— Awdhesh Singh

“For it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with…

— Richard Llewellyn

You don't want to loose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the…

— Anonymous

The only gift that you ever gave was that you let me just get away. I hope I haunt you in every…

— Fefe Dobson

But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are…

— Gertrude Stein

Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was…

— Jon Krakauer

“Thinking is a form of action, a means of activating our most cherished dreams. We can dwell in a negative world of…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Each actor is different. When I did 'Misery,' Kathy Bates, who's a stage trained actress, loves lots of rehearsal. Jimmy Caan, who…

— Rob Reiner

I want to be a force for real good. In other words, I know there are bad forces. You know, I know…

— John Coltrane

The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see…

— Blaise Pascal

A good writer can simulate a page torn out of somebody's diary, and give you every little voyeuristic thrill you might get…

— Will Sheff

And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

— Alexander Pope

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

— Decimius Magnus Ausonius

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

— Jeremy Bentham

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

— Friedrich Schiller

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

“Alas! how many ways does woman’s affection find to work out her own misery!”

— Walter Scott

Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

The greatest misery does not stop Me from uniting Myself to a soul, but where there is pride, I am not there.

— Mary Faustina Kowalska

Seeing you happy is enough for me than seeing you lonely living in misery.. Damn it kills me..

— Joanne Lobedica

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

— Aldous Huxley

You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.

— Anthony Marra

Happiness comes from moving toward something. When you run away, ofttimes you bring your misery with you.

— Michael J. Sullivan

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

— Homer

Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus