Best 873 quotes in «misery quotes» category

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 feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.

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

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.

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.

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.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

Happiness is one pole, sadness is another. Blissfulness is one pole, misery is another. Life consists of both, and life is richer because of both. A life only of blissfulness will have extension, but will not have depth. A life of only sadness will have depth, but will not have extension.

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

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

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

Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

Here you’re just a person…one with a life force that can feed us all. (Misery) Baby, I’m not worth the indigestion. Trust me. (Fang)

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

I am the Saudi Arabia of unhappiness. I have so many reserves of misery that you wouldn't understand. I actually think that's part of why I connect with Canadians. I think they understand grinding misery underneath.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.