Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think… — Allen Ginsberg
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. — Sophocles
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a… — Alfred North Whitehead
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life… — Rebecca Harding Davis
The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair. — Iris Murdoch
May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help… — Robertson Davies
Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white… — Josephine Baker
For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it. — Bernard Malamud
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. — Oscar Niemeyer
I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery. — Grant-Lee Phillips
Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art. — Josh Peck
Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster. — Frederick Lenz
Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way.… — Frederick Lenz
I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice. — Shelby Lynne
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. — Tryon Edwards
Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design. — Henry Rollins
If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery.… — Douglas Hofstadter
Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my… — Ben Vereen
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to… — Jerome K. Jerome
Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak,… — Xunzi
Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and… — Daisaku Ikeda
Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there… — Julian Baggini
I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is on that you… — Morena Baccarin
I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate. — Caleb Carr

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