Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds. — John Milton Copy Share Image
A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be? — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself. — Fred Green Copy Share Image
The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
I'm evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I'm evil, so don't mess around with me. — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“If the essence of things is unknowable, the misery of man cannot be fathomed.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Misery is like a gamy piece of meat: not particularly nourishing, certainly not tasty, but still it’s something to chew on, and… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“...life brings you everything at once. You can be in misery because of the misery of your daughter at the same time… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Then he took the pages, smoothed them with the palm of his hand, and fixed them with pins to the walls. So… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“I looked around the barroom. Someone else might have seen nothing more than a random crowd of drinkers, but I saw my… — J.R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general.… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“There's actually a sort of comfort in the belief that things can only get worse. It gives one an appreciation for the… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“It is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) to complain and cry about one’s own misery and it is raudradhyan (wrathful… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, 'Why am I… — June Carter Cash Copy Share Image
Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery. — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will continue.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“The world was more fun if you could enjoy it with complete abandonment, untouched by the misery of others.” — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“since pain and misery are among the few things that, when shared, always multiply. The” — Leonardo Padura Copy Share Image
Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world. — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Misery loves company, but it hates confidence. Be bold enough to say NO to anyone who invites you to a pity party. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“money came from human misery and death and despair, as always it does.” — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity. — Ann Rinaldi Copy Share Image
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
“I hereby propose the term “miserize”, as a verb for misery – referring to “to cause misery”.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
