Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human, and deserve a… — Christopher Hitchens
I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery. — Beverly D'Angelo
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan conditionâ€”hyper-densityâ€”without once losing faith in… — Rem Koolhaas
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery. — Gates McFadden
Then we heard the rumours: that the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the world. Restore it?… — Unknown Author
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

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