Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

He was never without misery, and never without hope. — Joseph Heller
Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity. — Augusten Burroughs
Since the beginning of time, love has been the source of both the highest bliss and the heaviest burdens. At the heart of misery from… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery. — John Kennedy Toole
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom. — Voltaire
Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love… — Saint Augustine
Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend… — Wayne Dyer
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the… — Graham Greene
Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. — Aldous Huxley
Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You… — John Fante
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and… — Daniel Defoe
I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship :… — Daniel Defoe
Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,--… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only… — Elizabeth Gilbert
In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence… — Alejo Carpentier
Maybe I'll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.' Gale who I have never seen cry has tears in… — Suzanne Collins
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget,… — Abraham Verghese
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork, stop going out… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one,” he said. “Life can be… — Patricia Grasso
To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is… — Anne Bronte
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges… — Henri Nouwen
Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault… — Victor Hugo
Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries. — Wislawa Szymborska

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