Best 873 quotes in «misery quotes» category

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.

Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

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

Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a vehicle for the divine, it can never become the passage for the beyond.

Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

She (Judy Garland) was a friend of mine, a trying friend, but a friend. That is what I tell myself: She did everything she ever wanted to do. She never really denied herself anything for me. See, I say, she had a wonderful life; she did what she wanted to do. And I have no right to change her fulfillment into my misery. I'm on my own broom now.

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery.

Seems it's my destiny for love to cause me misery.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

Sometimes you're not supposed to enjoy it [acting]. You're supposed to cooperate with misery and proceed anyway. But what I do enjoy is a sense of well-being and just participating in life and life's turns.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.

Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.

Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.

The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

The Atonement is real. As you steadily do the things the Lord would have you do, a change will occur in you, and Satan's ability to lead you into the things that will destroy you and bring misery to you will become lessened.

The bliss of the Creator forever permeates all of creation, and it is only in the forgetting that misery exists.

That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone.

(The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any Persons at all upon a necessity of making such an Option, wherein if they choose amiss, the Misery they incur must be irrevocable.

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

The economic misery: who passed NAFTA? You know, Bill Clinton signed that with Hillary's [Clinton] support.

The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end of misery and the beginning of ecstasy.