Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery. — Louise Erdrich
A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into… — Amy Tan
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes! — Jean Racine
I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery. — Ayrton Senna
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty… — George Bernard Shaw
My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and… — Rob Zombie
You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but… — Robert Greene
Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of… — John Cheever
I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is… — Marvin J. Ashton
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this,… — Blaise Pascal
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. — Thomas Carlyle
Misery loves company, but happy is a better friend. — Ray Torres
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and… — Cyril Connolly
But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions… — August Spies
True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart… — Charles James
In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages. — Jerry Stahl
What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We do yoga to make life more beautiful.. to stop misery from entering our world. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow… — Dorothy Day
It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause… — Dalai Lama
Frugality is misery in disguise. — Publilius Syrus
Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in… — Phineas Quimby
Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on himself. Now, as… — Phineas Quimby
When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery. — Matthew Syed
My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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