Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate… — John Rhys-Davies
If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience. — Brian Moore
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. — Martha Washington
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. — William Cobbett
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery. — Michael Harrington
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. — Samuel Daniel
The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery! — Meat Loaf
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow… — John Cleveland
I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last… — Cliff Stearns
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life… — George Mason
They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a… — Stephen Phillips
I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought… — Fay Wray
The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery. — Joseph Butler
Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow. — Karl Amadeus Hartmann
He gave to misery (all he had) a tear. — Thomas Gray
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. — Alexander Smith
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. — Margaret Drabble
The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come. — Boris Trajkovski
Want is misery. — Ellen Pompeo
The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have not lost their will… — Henning Mankell
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh,… — Mario Monicelli
I believe that our friends among the dead really mind us and look out for us. Often there might be a big boulder of misery… — John O'Donohue
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness… — Sam Harris
I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others… — John Coltrane
Sin carries in it its own misery. — John Piper

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