Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and… — Swami Vivekananda
The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies,… — Charles Darwin
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite… — Karl Marx
The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic. Ask the questions that will uplift your spirit… — Tony Robbins
False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly… — Rabindranath Tagore
I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human… — Charlie Chaplin
We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to… — Albert Camus
Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated. — George Grosz
Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained. — Duke of Wellington
You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy. — Swami Satchidananda
The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation,… — Charles Horton Cooley
People in misery is what most important in art. — Zhang Yimou
A sage once said, ‘How shall I open my heart, oh friend? It is forbidden for me to speak. I am about to die for… — Trevor Hall
Misery leads to crime. I saw so many boys whipped it ruined my mind. — Albert Fish
Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery. — Swami Vivekananda
If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen like lightning from… — Charles Hodge
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in… — Vincent Van Gogh
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle...she fails in… — Kate Winslet
Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome; if happiness comes,… — Swami Vivekananda
Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery. — John Suckling
Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment,… — Samuel Johnson

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