Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of… — Khalil Gibran
Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion… — Sissela Bok
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on. — George Soros
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable. — George Eliot
My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe… — Muhammad Yunus
Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was so much better… — Sonia Sotomayor
If they had $2.00 for food, they had to give $1.00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the trap of poverty.… — Cesar Chavez
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only… — Cesar Chavez
However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human… — Cesar Chavez
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly
Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the… — Anna Akhmatova
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop. — William Shakespeare
That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing. — Plautus
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. — Cornelius Nepos
A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space. — Thomas Carlyle
If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for… — Albert Einstein
Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. — Thomas Tusser
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel. — Akkineni Nagarjuna
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet. — Maurice Maeterlinck
What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough. — Bertolt Brecht
Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable. — Rajneesh
Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time. — Dorothy Parker
It's always winter but it's never Christmas. — C.S. Lewis

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