Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our… — Glen Duncan
I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery… — E. M. Forster
There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery,… — Carl Jung
I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery. — Franz Kafka
Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness for making teasing… — Christopher Hitchens
At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her… — John Green
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. — Blaise Pascal
Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's go see what… — Henry Rollins
You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd. — Sinclair Lewis
From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had… — Jane Austen
Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery. — Daniel Kahneman
I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was a… — Alexander Gordon Smith
It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been possible... that you… — Cassandra Clare
Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery — Judith McNaught
At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire. — Scott Hahn
He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off. But all these… — Cassandra Clare
To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with… — Richard Linklater
She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together through violence and… — Nora Roberts
He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off… — D. H. Lawrence
Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again. — Greg Behrendt

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