Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. — Winston Churchill
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. — Winston Churchill
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. — Woody Allen
In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as… — Jarvis Cocker
So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery. — Tupac Shakur
There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same… — Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the limits of subsistence,… — John F. Kennedy
How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries! — Douglas Harding
All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the blue-nosed misery. — Ruth Pitter
Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do… — Thomas Carlyle
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable… — Alexander Hamilton
Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great… — Laozi
Since I only got one life to ive, God forgive me for my sins, let me make it and i'll never steal again, or deal… — Tupac Shakur
Picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witnessed struggles ive survived, praying hard for better days promised to hold on… — Tupac Shakur
Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction. — Lynn Johnston
When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in… — John Howard Griffin
The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and… — David Walker
The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every… — John Peter Altgeld
I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated… — Oscar Arias
Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious… — Frances Perkins
I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery. — George Washington
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. — Lewis Mumford
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the… — Oscar Wilde

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