Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies… — C.S. Lewis
The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it… — Nicole Krauss
A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean — Thomas Jefferson
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world. — Henrik Ibsen
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in… — Edvard Munch
In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression… — Peter Singer
What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished… — Edgar Degas
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both… — Joseph Addison
For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe… — Milton Friedman
I am talking about misery and all of its implications. — Juan Rulfo
Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell… — Thomas Brooks
If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing; go in your sins,… — Charles Spurgeon
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space. — Charles Spurgeon
It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on the… — Henry Steele Commager
In misery it is great comfort to have a companion. — John Lyly
Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor… — John Lyly
There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that… — Bertrand Russell

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