Misery Quotes

1633 quotes by 1035 authors

As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has… — Saint Augustine
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. — Jane Austen
When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth. — Teresa of Avila
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. — Russell Baker
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a… — Mikhail Bakunin
Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark. — Christian Bale
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison
Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure. — Benazir Bhutto
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. — Ambrose Bierce
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more… — William Blake
I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants.… — Anthony Bourdain
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying… — Bertolt Brecht
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. — Lord Byron
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and… — John Calvin
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. — Albert Camus
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the… — Albert Camus
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. — Thomas Carlyle

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