Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. — Henry Rollins
Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take… — Mitt Romney
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? — Eleanor Roosevelt
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as… — John Ruskin
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. — Bertrand Russell
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by… — Bertrand Russell
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an… — Albert Schweitzer
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. — Albert Schweitzer
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the… — Albert Schweitzer
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life… — William Shakespeare
Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the… — Tom Shales
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in… — Red Skelton
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. — Ralph Steadman
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. — Jonathan Swift
If misery loves company, misery has company enough. — Henry David Thoreau
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. — Anthony Trollope
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea… — Leon Trotsky
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. — Mark Twain
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we… — Swami Vivekananda
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our… — Martha Washington
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. — Voltaire
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink. — Horace Walpole
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts… — Noah Webster

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