Add Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil…

— Phineas Quimby

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

— Ramana Maharshi

The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as…

— Nicole Krauss

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

— Tom Perrotta

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

— John Bradshaw

When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it’s a formula for misery.

— Suzanne Selfors

I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Misery develops in the insidious seams created by imprecision and faulty human thinking. The cure for unhappiness is finding joy by embracing human nature.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the…

— Luther Burbank

Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.

— Rajneesh

There's enough misery in the world today without going out of the way to create more.

— Fred MacMurray