Best 873 quotes in «misery quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

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

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

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 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.

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?

Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?

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

Wine and women bring misery.

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.

You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature and could be negotiated readily. Others had almost no curvature and you knew you'd be spending hours turning the corner. Great whopping-big planet-sized miseries.

You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And that's why you feel awful later--you've relieved yourself, and if it truly is tragic and awful, it's not better, it's worse---the exhibitionism inherent to a confession has only made the misery worse.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.

You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery!

Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of the computer, with the screen blank and the cursor blinking, was the best escape I knew. And there was plenty to escape from.

You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.