Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. — Theodore Dreiser
Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them… — Georges Duhamel
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. — Wayne Dyer
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it… — Desiderius Erasmus
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. — Euripides
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. — Federico Fellini
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in… — Francois Fenelon
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of… — Vaclav Havel
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of… — Eric Hoffer
If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery. — Simon Hoggart
I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back… — Anthony Hopkins
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. — Victor Hugo
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. — Aldous Huxley
Misery is a match that never goes out. — Thomas Huxley
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my… — Chrissie Hynde
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. — William James
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. — Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter… — Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art… — Samuel Johnson
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there… — Samuel Johnson
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. — Janis Joplin
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. — Joseph Joubert
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in… — Rudyard Kipling
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety. — Nigella Lawson
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on… — C.S. Lewis

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