Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

The brain is the man; its health is essential for normal living; its disorders are surely the most profound of human miseries; and its destruction… — Unknown Author
Sad memories often contain an element of nostalgia. — Unknown Author
To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life. — Gregor Mendel
All pleasures contain an element of sadness. — Unknown Author
Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're… — Scott Stossel
I really did not think a thing about playing five black players to start the game; they were our best players and deserved to start.… — Don Haskins
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before or since, capitalized… — George H. Smith
Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is… — Rajneesh
We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that… — Thubten Chodron
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy, than… — Margaret E. Knight
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all… — Arthur Rimbaud
The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution. — Annie Besant
As long as you don't compliment yourself, your environments and your job, you will always be miserable. Complaints bring misery, compliments brings strength. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew Him down from… — Frederick William Faber
This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries. — Walter Raleigh
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice,… — Georges Bernanos
At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind.… — Soren Kierkegaard
I like to be myself. Misery loves company — Unknown Author
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming -… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life. — Rajneesh
Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that… — Elbert Hubbard
But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their stoicism and their… — Peter Cosgrove
God knows life sucks. It's right there in the Bible. The book of Job is all about Job asking God to take away pain and… — Bill Maher
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. — Philip Massinger

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