Miseries Quotes

163 quotes by 122 authors

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. — Sophocles
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. — Oscar Niemeyer
I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice. — Shelby Lynne
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. — Tryon Edwards
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries. — Jane Birkin
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries. — Victoria Abril
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past. — Erica Jong
Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of… — Samuel Johnson
Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless feel that it… — Joy Davidman
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability… — Pope John Paul II
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. — Seneca the Younger
There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of… — John Armstrong
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. — John Dryden
The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn… — Thomas Hartwell Horne
Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to… — George Bernard Shaw
There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we donâ€™t have all the time in the world, we have all the… — Craig Stone
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of… — Benjamin Franklin
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. — Joseph Conrad
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter… — Thomas Jefferson
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in… — Rudyard Kipling

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