Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one.… — Stephen King
It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world. — William Cobbett
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life. — Alexander Smith
We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin… — Elizabeth Gilbert
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and,… — Charles Sanders Peirce
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. — Boethius
It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is… — James F. Cooper
Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand… — Pope John Paul II
If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His… — Mark Twain
The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's… — Max Lucado
I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery. — Horace Walpole
In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens… — Walter Raleigh
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all… — Edmund Burke
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. — Samuel Johnson
Jealousy means ego, jealousy means unconsciousness. Jealousy means that you have not known even a moment of joy and bliss; you are living in misery.… — Rajneesh
Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger, it may be… — Rajneesh
Once you become more and more watchful of your inner workings things become simple. Then a few things have to be dropped. One has not… — Rajneesh
Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a vehicle for the… — Rajneesh
Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me.… — Soren Kierkegaard
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery. — Cesare Pavese
The first thing is love: love deeply. If you have been with a person for a few years, in deep love, and you have experienced… — Rajneesh
But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience. — John Milton
The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the… — Pope John XXIII
To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress of all men,… — Pope Paul VI

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