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Misery Quotes by William Shakespeare
- I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
- Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.
- There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life…
- If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad,…
- Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
- When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
- Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows
More Misery Quotes
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. — Jane Austen
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. — Russell Baker
- People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark. — Christian Bale
- That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison
- Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure. — Benazir Bhutto
- Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. — Ambrose Bierce
- To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of… — William Blake