Misery Quotes

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

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 lead to confusion and misery in our lives.

Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

It's time to recognize that the EU is beyond reform and deserves to be put out of its misery.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

You can,t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.

...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a freer aspect,& the laws favor a subdivision of property.

It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause for pity. Rather it is a cause for compassion.

You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery!

Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.

Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.

When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.

Misery loves company.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

To take all that we are and have and hand it over to God may not be easy; but it can be done; and when it is done, the world has in it one less candidate for misery.

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

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

The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.