Misery Quotes

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Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly
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
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop. — William Shakespeare
That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing. — Plautus
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. — Cornelius Nepos
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
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
Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. — Thomas Tusser
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel. — Akkineni Nagarjuna
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet. — Maurice Maeterlinck
What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough. — Bertolt Brecht
Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable. — Rajneesh
Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time. — Dorothy Parker
It's always winter but it's never Christmas. — C.S. Lewis
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
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
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures. — William Hazlitt
Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. — Seneca the Younger
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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