Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent… — Philip Yancey
Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice. — Ann Landers
God,' she cried, 'what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't… — Djuna Barnes
And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery. — Annie Proulx
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is… — Swami Vivekananda
We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan — Amy Tan
This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where… — P.G. Wodehouse
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. — Kofi Annan
It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From… — Doris Lessing
I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can… — Joyce Carol Oates
How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal… — Tracy Kidder
In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for… — William Saroyan
We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They… — Pema Chodron
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual… — Joseph Conrad
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced… — Germaine Greer
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. — Charles Dickens
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable… — Thomas Paine
Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength… — C.S. Lewis
There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or… — Azar Nafisi
What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one:… — John Piper
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's… — Margaret Atwood
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than… — W. Somerset Maugham
We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,” Say nothing but… — Spencer W. Kimball

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