Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy. — Virginia C. Andrews
Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good,… — Dean Koontz
We are closest to Christ when sharing the world’s misery. Think you Jesus came to remove our pains? Wherever did you get that notion? The… — Stephen R. Lawhead
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society!… — Victor Hugo
If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day… — John Bytheway
...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look… — Rohinton Mistry
Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery. — Benjamin Franklin
But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the… — Christopher Paolini
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though… — Graham Greene
But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand. — Jerome K. Jerome
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the… — Voltaire
Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with… — Homer
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as… — Daniel Webster
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time. — Deepak Chopra
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. — Victor Hugo
You don't want to loose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be… — Rajneesh
No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy. — Dante Alighieri
Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery — Anne Frank
Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing? — Saul Bellow
[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […] — Sebastian Horsley
... as a rule of thumb, whenever there appears a plural, correct for a singular. Should I ever let slip a royal WE, put me… — Nicole Krauss
An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery. — Sharon Shinn
Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps. — Daniel Handler

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