Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy.… — Joseph Addison
Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in… — Samuel Butler
Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable. — Unknown Author
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. — Joseph Addison
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. — Martha Washington
The greatest part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. — Martha Washington
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same — Unknown Author
The second office of this government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery. — Thomas Jefferson
The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of… — Blaise Pascal
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how… — Anthony Brandt
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit — Jonathan Swift
Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery… — Bible
Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a man… — Robert Burton
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. — Bible
In seperateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength. — Buddha
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world — William Cobbett
And I return to the coldness of this defying human nature, to the impertinence with which the losers of the Sacred Self clime to our… — Sorin Cerin
Wars will be increasingly more hypocrite, they will pass from the classical battle field to informatics systems counting new eases to be built or that… — Sorin Cerin
I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and… — William Cobbett
How could such an absurd and unfair society that torments with self alienation the human being, already completely alienated be still saved? How could a… — Sorin Cerin
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions - and unwanted children living in… — William Bennett
Old age is not total misery, experience helps. — Euripides
For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because thou shalt forget thy misery,… — Bible
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and… — Kofi Annan
No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery,… — Cesare Pavese

Who Wrote These Misery Quotes

995 authors contributed a total of 1,633 Misery Quotes, led by these top contributors: