Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case… — Charles Dickens
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. — Andre Gide
I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. — Victor Hugo
What will you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?' No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present… — Emma Goldman
I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would… — John Keats
Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow. — George Eliot
There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness. — Leo Tolstoy
She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict. — Mitch Albom
...The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with… — Charlie Chaplin
Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be… — C.S. Lewis
I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art. — Vladimir Nabokov
He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love,… — Baruch Spinoza
Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery. — Laini Taylor
As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match… — Jung Chang
What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere? — Elif Safak
Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door. — Toni Morrison
They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and… — Miguel de Cervantes
Hope is that tiny light that the gods have given us so that we can find our way through our darkest hours. And while we… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so. ~ Inferno — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The history of empires is the history of human misery. — Edward Gibbon
If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and… — Gavin Extence
You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family. — Anthony Marra
He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everything he had seen that night… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I climbed into Misery and called Uncle Bob. “We hooking up?” “Why does everything out of your mouth make me sound incestuous?” “Um, I wasn’t… — Darynda Jones
The Death Mist is not for helping!" Akhlys shrieked. "It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very… — Rick Riordan

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