Misery Quotes
1633 quotes by 995 authors
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
— Susan Sontag
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Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
— John Donne
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It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not accept the universe…
— John Burroughs
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Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where…
— Tryon Edwards
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The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes…
— Rajneesh
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
— Boethius
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A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.
— Joseph Addison
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Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
— Heinrich Heine
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Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.
— Napoleon Hill
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Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O Lord, let the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will…
— Swami Vivekananda
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What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship…
— Wim Wenders
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Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.
— Euripides
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Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.
— Homer
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Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
— Euripides
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Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness.…
— Hugh Prather
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