Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood… — Mahatma Gandhi
I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery… — Bertrand Russell
Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different groups of men,… — John Haynes Holmes
We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and… — Robert Owen
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage. — Mark Twain
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so. — Boethius
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains....My advice is: Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the… — Anne Frank
One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it… — John Ruskin
Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither… — Ramana Maharshi
Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy… — Rod Stryker
If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery.… — Julie Chen
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing… — Thomas Paine
No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as on that very… — Charles Spurgeon
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of… — Thomas Jefferson
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for… — Andrew Young
How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all… — Pema Chodron
Ecstasy is our very nature; not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic,… — Rajneesh
This relaxation is the space in which happiness grows, and again I repeat: for no reason at all. It is not that you are happy… — Rajneesh
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation… — Pablo Picasso
When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives… — Arthur Helps
The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite… — Ann Hood

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