Misery Quotes · Page 34

“I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own.”

— Katja Millay

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

— Anne Frank

Oh, Misery, I have drunk thy cup of sorrow to its dregs, but I am still a rebel.

— Lucy Parsons

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.

— Geoff Mulgan

I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.

— Walter Savage Landor

Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.

— Adyashanti

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

— Steve Almond

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

— Michael Harrington

“Rainy, gloomy, drab, sunless day.  There are times when hope seems entirely clouded over, when looking for the blessings in your circumstances…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not…

— Victor Hugo

If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to…

— Claire Danes

Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it…

— Kofi Annan

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.

— Henri Barbusse

... as a rule of thumb, whenever there appears a plural, correct for a singular. Should I ever let slip a royal…

— Nicole Krauss

“All these were things he could not want, because they were the things he could not have, and wanting you could not…

— Cassandra Clare

That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with…

— Adam Smith

It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk…

— Walter Isaacson

Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be…

— John Calvin

God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds…

— Dorothy Parker

Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our…

— Oliver Goldsmith

In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown…

— Alejo Carpentier

It is a basic human need that everyone wants to live a happy life. For this, one has to experience real happiness.…

— S. N. Goenka

I climbed into Misery and called Uncle Bob. “We hooking up?” “Why does everything out of your mouth make me sound incestuous?”…

— Darynda Jones

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

— Bill Crawford

The more opulent a temple, the more miserable is the spirit that lives in it.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

“What misery a sensation is! Ecstasy itself, perhaps, is nothing more.”

— Emil Cioran

“The only effect of the words of powerless people on the Internet was to inflict misery on other powerless people.”

— Jarett Kobek

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

— Jon Krakauer

You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and…

— Swami Satchidananda

Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyones misery is their own stupidity and laziness.

— Anonymous

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

— Eric Cantona

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

— Benjamin Disraeli

What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

— Mary Oliver

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

— Joseph Conrad

Any attempt to control one's mind inflicts misery on the controller and the controlled

— Anonymous

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

— Bertrand Russell

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

— Anonymous

Niggas try to pull me back cause misery loves company. My future so bright but my past is so ugly...

— Anonymous

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

— George Eliot