Best 873 quotes in «misery quotes» category

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

There is winning and there is misery.

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don’t have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time.

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

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

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.

The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself.

The whole "misery loves company" thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the other person is doing fine is simply too much to bear.

They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

Time and time again throughout the latter part of the Cold War, liberals chose a morally perverse pose. They would seek to find any suspect motive or impure act on the part of the United States rather than confront the staggering scale of destruction and misery being wrought by our adversaries.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan

Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.

We make our days pleasant or miserable. If we insist on being miserable, irritable and nasty, more than likely the day will give us exactly what we give it. A day is too valuable to waste on misery and unhappiness.

We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.

We've seen what violent regime change looks like in Libya and the kind of chaos that can be unleashed. And, indeed, the kind of misery that it enacts on its own people.

What else is there for the rich to do, If not to relieve the poor of their misery?

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.