Best 873 quotes in «misery quotes» category

The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don`t have one desire, you have many desires. Not only that you have many desires, you have contradictory desires. If one is fulfilled, the other, which is its contradiction, remains unfulfilled and you are in misery. If the other is fulfilled, then something else remains unfulfilled.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism.

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

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

There is no shortage of ways that people profit indirectly from the misery and cruelty in other places. Even now, the shirts we wear and the tomatoes we eat. There are unfortunately unfair and inhumane conditions - including literal slavery - all over the world.

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

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

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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 exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

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.

Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.

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

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

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