Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of… — John Armstrong
The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant… — Thomas Carlyle
Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity… — Gautama Buddha
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. — John Dryden
But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we… — William Cowper
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable… — Henry Fielding
And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show. — Alexander Pope
But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave. — John Milton
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. — Aeschylus
It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy.… — Bertrand Russell
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. — Plutarch
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease,… — Hannah More
Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the… — Tony Blair
If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should… — David Hume
Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves… — Beatrice Webb
Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others,… — Francois Mitterrand
The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching… — Edgar Wilson Nye
Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder. — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face… — Kofi Annan
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear. — Chanakya
The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on… — Omar Bongo
Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform. — Matt LeBlanc
Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery… — Duff Green
When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising… — Frank Laubach
Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their… — Peter Eigen

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