Best 873 quotes in «misery quotes» category

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.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

False fancy brings real misery.

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

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.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

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.

From the moment I told her about my dad, it was as if her whole body sighed in relief. As if someone else’s misery comforted her, made her feel as if she wasn’t alone.

frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.

Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.