Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next state. These states… — Swami Vivekananda
I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't… — Brad Pitt
A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not… — Denise Levertov
Victory Consistently, train all year to be the enemy's misery! — Lil Wayne
If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is… — Kanye West
Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops. — Phillips Brooks
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust. — Albert Schweitzer
When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and… — Adolf Hitler
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
But fear - panic - knows no reason. It brings into being overnight the things that it fears. It is the greatest torment of humanity.… — Robert Collier
There are so may ways to kills yourself, they're just old-fashioned with their permanganate: do you think I'd take permanganate? I wouldn't want to burn… — Christina Stead
No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often… — Eleanor Roosevelt
To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed… — Charlie Chaplin
No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may… — William Wilberforce
Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and for compassion, against… — Bruce Friedrich
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is… — Swami Vivekananda
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it… — Swami Vivekananda
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition... — Kofi Annan
All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the… — George MacDonald
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
The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy. — Richard Sibbes
You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate… — Gordon Parks
American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on… — Cornel West
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of… — Samuel Johnson
That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of… — J C Ryle

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