Misery Quotes

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...

We are in misery because we are creatures of self - the self that is unyielding and narrow, that ref...

Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all...

O sirs, how many souls, then, have every one of us been guilty of damning! What a number of our neig...

Women invented misery, but we don't understand it.

Against Self-PityIt gets you nowhere but deeper intoyour own shit--pure misery a luxuryone never lea...

Miseries of a birth.

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

And the child—your child—was born there in the midst of misery. It was a deadly place: strange, ever...

The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horri...

She gave him a strange maternal grin.For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheld...

When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin.

You're like a man who loves nothing better than a thick steak but wouldn't last an hour in a slaught...

It was never for you, Annie, or all the other people out there who sign their letters “Your number-o...

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, ...

We see her go through dangerous mood-swings, but I tried never to come right out and say "Annie was ...

Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.

Only you could be more important than what I wanted...what I needed. What I want and what I need is ...

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not ...

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserab...

She went indoors in that peculiar state of misery which is not exactly grief, and which especially a...

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

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have affl...

Stone me, what a life!

But why, everybody asks, am I not blessed by fortune (or at least not as blessed as I would like to ...

They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are co...

Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its...

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its...

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garmen...

I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what ...

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me...

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in ...

What rent do you pay here?" I inquired. "I don’t know,—what is it, Sam?" "All we make," answered Sam...

I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which...

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He woul...

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

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, w...

And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if on...

"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."

I seeIn many an eye that measures meThe mortal sickness of a mindToo unhappy to be kind.Undone with ...

In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed f...

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their miser...

The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is...

You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid...

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. ...

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery.

He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with a...

A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and p...

If Iona's heart were to burst and his misery to flow out, it would flood the whole world, it seems, ...