Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely. — Timothy Keller
I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries… — Alexis de Tocqueville
According to a Pew poll, 49% of young Americans have a favorable view of socialism. What is socialism? it is a system that leads to… — David Horowitz
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who… — Henry David Thoreau
We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap. — John W. Gardner
The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for… — C.S. Lewis
Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch.… — Victor Hugo
Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover… — Richard Clarke Cabot
When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it’s a formula for misery. — Suzanne Selfors
I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. — George Eliot
Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home. — Langston Hughes
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life… — June Jordan
The remembrance of past misery is sweet. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for… — Thomas Carlyle
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly… — Agnes Repplier
If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more… — U.G. Krishnamurti
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the… — Seneca the Younger
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful. — Seneca the Younger
The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery. — Bill Mauldin
The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule;… — Emile M. Cioran

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