Misery Quotes · Page 33

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

— Walter Scott

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

— Philibert Joseph Roux

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

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application…

— Walter Raleigh

Her heart began to ache, and she felt the numbness slip away. Misery welled up inside her. She clamped down on it,…

— Lili Wilkinson

If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty…

— George Harrison

Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free.…

— Mariah Carey

“For the ignorant, pain is a curse, but for the wise, it is a blessed moment for reinforcing one's inner goodness and…

— Abhijit Naskar

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and…

— Desiderius Erasmus

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have…

— Philip Larkin

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging,…

— Edith Wharton

I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and…

— Marvin J. Ashton

A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there…

— Anonymous

So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their…

— Lucy Parsons

If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and…

— Sam Harris

I think everybody knows that Africa is in a very deep crisis. There is economic misery and social deprivation and that Africa…

— George W. Bush

If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin,…

— Kedar Joshi

Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a…

— Germaine Greer

There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she…

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Buddha

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

“Ignore the misery. Custom invites you to ignore the misery." SHOW YOUR TONGUE”

— Gunter Grass

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

— Joseph Butler

“There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe”

— Holly Black

My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy.

— Boy George

When you get so interested in hating things, you'll miss even the things you love.

— Terry Mark

There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.

— Dante Alighieri

Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery

— Matthew Arnold

“It's often in your deepest misery that brings out your greatest self”

— Thabiso Monkoe

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

— Philip Massinger

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

— Frederick Douglass

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

— Daniel Kahneman

The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.

— Dalai Lama

Misery and sorrow, I don't want to have anything to do with them. I always want to be happy and cheerful.

— P. T. Usha