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Misery Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its…
- What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest…
- The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
- ...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.
- My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the…
- Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea,…
- How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!
- My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you…
- I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
- But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.
More Misery Quotes
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. — Jane Austen
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. — Russell Baker
- People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark. — Christian Bale
- That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison
- Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure. — Benazir Bhutto
- Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. — Ambrose Bierce
- To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of… — William Blake