Misery Quotes

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Seeking happiness is a straight way to misery.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

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

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

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

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.