Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. — Carl Sagan
I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature… — Jonathan Franzen
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. — Margaret Drabble
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not… — John Fowles
Another step had her backed up against the wall, and he braced his arms on both sides of her. "I'm beginning to look forward to… — Johanna Lindsey
Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It’s the final tie that binds us The sole source of my consolation" “blue — Gayle Forman
This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work… — Thomas Ligotti
Every time I think that it’s not worth it – that the people in it deserve the misery of their lives – I come across… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery. — Gilles Deleuze
HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now.… — Ellen Hopkins
We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is… — Terry Pratchett
From the moment I told her about my dad, it was as if her whole body sighed in relief. As if someone else’s misery comforted… — Simone Elkeles
When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only with the Divine,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention. — Sharon Salzberg
It's strange how we always want other people to feel what we feel. It must be a basic human drive. Misery loves company, right? Or… — Neal Shusterman
God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off… — Dorothy Parker
But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want;… — C.S. Lewis
I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the… — Jose Rizal
You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and… — Emily Bronte
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies. — Emile M. Cioran
Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The… — William Dalrymple
frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace. — Joyce Meyer

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