Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not… — David D. Burns
Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children. — Frank Sulloway
Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three… — Unknown Author
Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state. — Kirkpatrick Sale
Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price… — Mark Rothko
A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him — Clive Barker
The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to… — Pema Chodron
Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery. — Charles Spurgeon
Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgressions.… — Stephen Charnock
Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an… — Daniel Kahneman
We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between… — Alvin Toffler
What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Free grace will fix those, whom free will shook down into a gulph of misery. — Thomas Boston
I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended… — Ezra Cornell
Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During… — Subcomandante Marcos
Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous… — Isaac Bonewits
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. — Publilius Syrus
I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of… — John Scott
I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralisation,… — Almeida Garrett
The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire… — Desiderius Erasmus
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery. — Winston Churchill
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination. — Ramana Maharshi
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and… — Kofi Annan
We make our days pleasant or miserable. If we insist on being miserable, irritable and nasty, more than likely the day will give us exactly… — Iyanla Vanzant
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is… — Khalil

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