Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that such ecstasy remains… — Larry Levis
When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand. — Piper Kerman
Misery is the River of the World — Tom Waits
Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments. — Joe Abercrombie
Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. — Jane Addams
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and… — Edith Wharton
It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without… — Luigi Pirandello
You listen to the mind, you become miserable - otherwise, this today is paradise! And there is no other paradise, this today is nirvana. If… — Rajneesh
No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery. — Dante Alighieri
There is no greater misery than false joys. — Bernard of Clairvaux
The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have… — Thomas Jefferson
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men… — Thomas Paine
Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also… — Eugene V. Debs
Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered… — Samuel Johnson
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and… — Daniel Defoe
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me. — William Cowper
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people. — Walter Ulbricht
We come together only to go apart again. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves… — R.K. Narayan
A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a… — Max Horkheimer
The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War — Jurgen Habermas
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty… — Hannah Arendt
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the… — Charles Babbage
O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism… — Virginia Woolf
I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench… — Henry George
The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be just… — Napoleon Hill

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