Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly. — Friedrich Schiller
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity. — Lester Levenson
You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked body, you look… — Frosty Wooldridge
The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let go of the… — Lester Levenson
If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and… — Kedar Joshi
Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose as a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a… — Ernie J Zelinski
If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency. — Lester Levenson
Misery doesn't only love company. It demands it. For this reason, don't walk away from negative people. RUN! — Ernie J Zelinski
They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU. — Hal Elrod
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating… — Fulton J. Sheen
Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of… — Samuel Johnson
Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless feel that it… — Joy Davidman
Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.' — C.S. Lewis
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability… — Pope John Paul II
Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery. — Frederick Lenz
If someone we love dies, normally the experience might create misery for the rest of your life. But the Kundalini can be released so we… — Frederick Lenz
Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets. — George Osborne
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. — Seneca the Younger
Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. — Seneca the Younger
Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of your misery, the… — Rajneesh
God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery. — William C. Bryant
We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and… — William Penn
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? — Jean de La Fontaine
The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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