Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of the… — Muhammad Asad
It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries? — John le Carre
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton
He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery. — Holly Black
I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would… — Kenneth Oppel
It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves. Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between… — Suzanne Collins
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than… — Homer
But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Happiness comes from moving toward something. When you run away, ofttimes you bring your misery with you. — Michael J. Sullivan
They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take… — Jean Rhys
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and… — David Mitchell
Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring… — Richard Llewellyn
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. — Honore de Balzac
...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor… — Shalom Auslander
The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, — Khalil Gibran
...in the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery... — John le Carre
A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness — Cassandra Clare
For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible?… — Annie Proulx
I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not… — Jeanette Winterson
Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and… — George MacDonald
And through all the misery, she said that some of us in this lifetime experience a moment of beauty beyond reckoning. I asked her what… — Melina Marchetta
There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and… — Vincent Van Gogh

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