Best 873 quotes in «misery quotes» category

... as a rule of thumb, whenever there appears a plural, correct for a singular. Should I ever let slip a royal WE, put me out of my misery with a swift blow to the head.

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything.

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.

Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.

Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state with a flourishing economic life.

But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune from all anger, I never feel angry. If am immune from all hatred, I never feel hatred.

Change only one thing, change from misery to bliss. from sadness to celebration. And it can be done very easily because misery is an unnatural thing.

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

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

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives in misery, which has led to violent confrontation throughout the century.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

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

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that.

Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.

Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

Do you sometimes feel that you just can't take one more thing? Even in your misery, be mindful that the very weight of your burdens and the intensity going to use in your life to trigger an experience of personal revival.

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.

Everyone is scared of having a free sexual life and what they do is go on the Internet and masturbate. This is the pure sexual misery today. They don't even go to the movie theater like in the '70s.

Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

Every time I think that it’s not worth it – that the people in it deserve the misery of their lives – I come across someone who makes me rethink that.

False fancy brings real misery.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

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.

For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy--even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery.

From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.