Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

If you love a Dream Woman ... let her stay the divine Woman of the Dream. To awaken and clasp flesh and blood, no matter… — William John Locke
Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an… — Helen Keller
If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else. They would stop… — Craig Stone
There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don’t have all the time in the world, we have all the… — Craig Stone
The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working… — Emma Goldman
God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He… — Robert Herrick
I think there's a core of real anger or misery inside every true stand-up comic. — Scott Raab
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from… — Pope Francis
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting… — Anne Frank
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. — Anne Frank
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. — Anne Frank
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of… — Benjamin Franklin
Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that… — Martha Gellhorn
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. — Edward Gibbon
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice. — William Glasser
We can never flee the misery that is within us. — Arthur Golden
Misery is a communicable disease. — Martha Graham
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind… — Graham Greene
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. — Joseph Conrad
Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and… — Louis C. K.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. — Charles Darwin
I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for… — Larry David
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are… — John Dryden
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? — Princess Diana
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. — Frederick Douglass

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