Misery Quotes
1633 quotes by 995 authors
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Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
— Cyril Connolly
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Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the…
— Anna Akhmatova
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I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
— William Shakespeare
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That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.
— Plautus
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The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
— Cornelius Nepos
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A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
— Thomas Carlyle
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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for…
— Albert Einstein
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Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
— Thomas Tusser
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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
— Akkineni Nagarjuna
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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.
— Bertolt Brecht
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Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.
— Rajneesh
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Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.
— Dorothy Parker
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It's always winter but it's never Christmas.
— C.S. Lewis
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Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
— Frederick Buechner
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Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection…
— George Santayana
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It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
— William Hazlitt
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Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
— Seneca the Younger
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In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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