Misery Quotes · Page 29

Being any kind of happy is better than being miserable wanting somebody you can't have.

— Anonymous

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

— Joanna Field

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'll let a mystery gas out of my blistery ass Just to disrupt the misery of history class.

— MC Paul Barman

“Listening to people howl in misery is not one of my favourite pastimes.”

— John Green

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

— Robert Southey

“How can one be free from miseries?’ – this life has to be lived to know only this.”

— Dada Bhagwan

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

— Dada Bhagwan

The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking…

— Werner Herzog

We've seen what violent regime change looks like in Libya and the kind of chaos that can be unleashed. And, indeed, the…

— Rex W. Tillerson

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and…

— Saint Augustine

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical…

— Adolf Hitler

Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals…

— Tom Shales

“I could not figure out what they were doing in an ice cream shop, since they couldn't possible eat calories. I imagined…

— Leila Sales

Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there…

— Herman Melville

“This was it, a crossroad where a happy home was within her grasp, and on the other side lay years of loneliness…

— Anya Wylde

“I know for a fact that no matter where I go, the memory and the suffering of not being with you will…

— CSTPimentel

There's always a fundamental misery that's with me that I always relate to some bit of loss or something. I don't know…

— Don McLean

For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Poverty is not an accident of, sort of, an economic spreadsheet. Poverty is a crime. There are criminals involved. And those criminals…

— Tom Morello

Have faith to keep all the commandments of God, knowing that they are given to bless His children and bring them joy.…

— Russell M. Nelson

Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such…

— Jonathan Edwards

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the…

— Beilby Porteus

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

— George Eliot

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

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Misery not only loves company, it derives validation from it.”

— Will Bowen

Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

— William Morris

“for laughter is the perfect medicine for the tortured heart, the balm for misery,”

— Dean Koontz

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

— Simon Hoggart

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery

— Francis Picabia

What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?

— Anonymous

“If you are miserable you grow in misery and if you are joyful you grow in joy.”

— Bryant McGill

The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.

— Richard Sibbes

“When all is said and done, I will be the one to leave you in the misery and hate what you've become”

— Breaking Benjamin