Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism,… — Aldous Huxley
Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts… — Christopher Marlowe
And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable. — Alyson Noel
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons… — Graham Greene
He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity. — Sheldon B. Kopp
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt… — Alexandre Dumas
I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is… — C.S. Lewis
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how… — Steven Erikson
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. — Groucho Marx
To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts… — John F. Kennedy
The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is… — Swami Vivekananda
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being -- because ideological orientation itself is the… — Rajneesh
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth. — Yann Martel
Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you. — Samuel Beckett
If you dare try to leave me behind, I'll follow on foot, and when I die in the snow, Ill come back and haunt you.… — Stuart Hill
My misery is reaching epidemic proportions. — Libba Bray
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation… — Winston Churchill
You pile of stones, you waste, you desolation, I'll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I'll change your heart into… — Peter S. Beagle
You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And… — Philip Roth
It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery. — Carrie Vaughn
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end.… — Euripides

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