Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time… — Joko Beck
I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite… — Danny Boyle
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries. — Jane Birkin
I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us. — Eric Cantona
I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are… — Lily Allen
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries. — Victoria Abril
I'm evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I'm evil, so don't mess around with me. — Elvis Presley
Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love,… — Mariah Carey
Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the… — Bob Dylan
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery. — Jon Krakauer
It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler. — Christine Keeler
I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery. — Agatha Christie
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends. — Erica Jong
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past. — Erica Jong
The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism… — Robert Adams
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our… — Blaise Pascal
You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is… — Samuel Beckett
We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms.… — Napoleon Hill
Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human… — Pope Francis
A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is… — Erich Maria Remarque
The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we… — Pope Benedict XIV
Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself. — Joanne Harris
It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief. — Nicos Anastasiades
Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals as the soft-headed… — Bob Torres
Misery travels free through the whole world! — Friedrich Schiller

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