Misery Quotes

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we...

It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when K...

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep sile...

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't mer...

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparit...

Magnus rolled onto his back and put his feet up on the arm of the sofa. “What do you care if Alec’s ...

But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting...

...wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. ...

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

as long as there arehuman beings aboutthere is never going to beany peacefor any individualupon this...

We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to ...

Misery generates hate.

If I have become my father, then I shall have my father's blade. Thorn is my dragon, and a thorn he ...

How could anyone catch all of the beauty in the Present Moment, when, after years of misery, there w...

The days passed, the weeks. But everything seemed to have fused, gone into a conglomerated mass. He ...

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind al...

I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made t...

I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mo...

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with d...

I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its ...

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yours...

But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by rev...

Mr. Heathcliff, you have nobody to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall still have...

You shall not leave me in that temper.I should be miserable all night, and I won’t be miserable for ...

All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Th...

I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium...

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly m...

I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seein...

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Music heals all forms of misery

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

I have been in my bed for five weeks, oppressed with weakness and other infirmities from which my ag...

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy ...

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life—the life which has a seed of ennobling th...

He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had for...

She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down...

Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, lab...

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs...

The human mind is a lucky little local, passing accident which was totally unforeseen, and condemned...

After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think.

Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of cour...

So true it is, and so terrible, too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlis...

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was beca...

The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want...

But somebody else had spoken Snape’s name, quite softly.“Severus . . .”The sound frightened Harry be...

Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that ho...

But somebody else had spoken Snape’s name, quite softly.“Severus . . .”The sound frightened Harry be...

I looked around the barroom. Someone else might have seen nothing more than a random crowd of drinke...

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consci...

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and pres...

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every...

Tavi spent an eternity in misery, longing for death to bring sweet release from the unrelenting torm...

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to ...

Men in the vehement pursuit of happiness grasp at the first object which offers to them any prospect...

Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?

I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain an...

He that is down need fear no fall.

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they wer...

Misery loved company, but damnation needed it.

We say that the world is made of sea and land, as though they were equal; but we know that there is ...

I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.

Tiny is saying, "If you can't trust your gut then what can you trust?" And I say, "You can trust tha...

No one can usurp the heights...But those to whom the miseries of the worldAre misery, and will not l...

My misery was too deep to speak any more. I scanned the page; I was having trouble breathing, as tho...

He is wretched indeed, who goes up and down in the world, without a God to take care of him, to be h...

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

He was pinched perspinngly in the epistemological dilemma of the skeptic, unable to accept solutions...

…falling in love is a state of mental misery which has a restricting, impoverishing, and paralyzing ...

I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its libertie...

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul. People smuggled pirated copies of the film from Pakistan- ...

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may...

Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicis...

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative...

Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of t...

... when she called to mind all this utter and crushing misery that had come upon my aunts' old musi...

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.

You Mabden seem to think that happiness must be bought with misery... It is not easy for Vadhagh to ...

Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery.

Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of inte...

You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable yo...

I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus...

Some of my favorite songs: 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' by Neil Young; 'Last Night I Dreamed Tha...

There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in s...

Then he took the pages, smoothed them with the palm of his hand, and fixed them with pins to the wal...