Best 873 quotes in «misery quotes» category

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 spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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