Misery famous quotes

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Gains #Misery #Labor

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
-- Addison Mizner

#Doe #Misery #Company

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
-- Aeschylus

#Silence #Speech #Misery

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella

#Past #Poverty #Misery

The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna

#Wheels #Misery #Pleasure

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.
-- Albert Camus

#Common #Misery #Speak

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Looks #Misery #Compensation

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
-- Alexander Smith

#Happiness #Time #Misery

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
-- Andre Gide

#Sadness #Self Pity #Misery

Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.
-- Ann Landers

#Choices #Misery #Problem

Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery
-- Anne Frank

#Courage #Misery #Have Courage

Put yourself out of your misery.
-- Annie Dillard

#Misery

And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
-- Annie Proulx

#Pain #May #Misery

I like to be myself. Misery loves company
-- Anthony Corallo

#Misery #Mobster #Company

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

#Soul #Twists #Misery

We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.
-- Anthony Marra

#Soul #Twists #Misery

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Grief #Despair #Misery

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
-- Aristotle

#Action #Misery #Form

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
-- Arthur Adamov

#Long #Want #Misery

I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
-- Arthur Golden

#Sad #Trying #Misery

We can never flee the misery that is within us.
-- Arthur Golden

#Misery

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.
-- Ayrton Senna

#Islands #Sea #Misery

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
-- Barbara Johnson

#Pain #Misery #Inevitable

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Voice #Departure #Misery

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Gratitude #Priorities #Misery

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
-- Bernard Malamud

#Giving #Misery #Blame

There is no greater misery than false joys.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Joy #Misery

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Hope #Misery #Born

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Misery #Distraction

The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Sadness #Ruins #Misery

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
-- Boyle Roche

#Half #Cups #Misery

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.
-- Brooke Shields

#Misery

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
-- Caleb Carr

#Believe #Mountain #Misery

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

#Misery

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
-- Cesare Pavese

#Love #Doe #Misery

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

#Life #Alive #Misery

The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.
-- Charles Horton Cooley

#Appreciation #Causes #Misery

Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Sorrow #Misery #Sorrowful

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
-- Christina Stead

#Revolution #Misery #Should

It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.
-- Christine Keeler

#Misery #Christine

Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Pain #Choices #Misery

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
-- Cornelius Nepos

#Sadness #Wish #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.
-- Craig Stone

#Enough Time #World #Misery

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.
-- Craig Thompson

#Heaven #World #Misery

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
-- Cyril Connolly

#Animal #Thinking #Misery

Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Tragedy #Misery #Kicks

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.
-- Danny Boyle

#People #Way #Misery

The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
-- David Harvey

#Hands #Space #Misery

There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner.
-- Dean Karnazes

#Running #Magic #Misery

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.
-- Dean Koontz

#Reality #Causes #Misery

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

#Spiritual #Taken #Misery

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.
-- Dodie Smith

#Misery #Extremes

The bliss of the Creator forever permeates all of creation, and it is only in the forgetting that misery exists.
-- Doreen Virtue

#Forever #Misery #Forget

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Causes #Misery #Kind

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.
-- Duff Green

#Country #Misery

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
-- Duke of Wellington

#Battle #Next #Misery

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
-- Edward Dahlberg

#Men #Giving #Misery

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.
-- Edward Gibbon

#Humanity #Sorrow #Misery

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
-- Edward Gibbon

#Sympathy #Suffering #Misery

That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone.
-- Edward T. Lowe, Jr.

#Fighting #Misery #Horror

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.
-- Edwidge Danticat

#Black #Thumbprints #Misery

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Thinking #Deceit #Misery

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him
-- Eldridge Cleaver

#People #Misery #Deals

What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?
-- Elif Safak

#World #Roaming #Misery

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert

#People #Way #Misery

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

#Tragedy #Add #Misery

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.
-- Emily Mortimer

#Attention #Misery #Enough

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Soul #Doe #Misery

As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of ***** of negativity.'... The Brits don't merely enjoy misery, they get off on it.
-- Eric Weiner

#Negativity #Misery #Kind

Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.
-- Euripides

#Communication #Mouths #Misery

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

#Unemployment #Misery #Economic

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice…
-- Ezra Cornell

#Choices #Important #Misery

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.
-- F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

#Football #Sloth #Misery

There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.
-- F.B. Meyer

#Profound #Misery #Sin

Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.
-- Fanny Burney

#Guests #Return #Misery

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

#Hype #Awkward #Misery

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
-- Fiona Shaw

#Acting #Misery

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.
-- Frances Wright

#World #Misery #Crime

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.
-- Francis Collins

#Suffering #Disease #Misery

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery
-- Francis Picabia

#Men #Degrees #Misery

Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.
-- Frank Sulloway

#Children #Fall #Misery

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

#Trying #Misery #Companion

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

#World #Misery #Unnecessary

Misery travels free through the whole world!
-- Friedrich Schiller

#World #Misery

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
-- Gates McFadden

#Television #Information #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.
-- George Eliot

#Air #Joy #Misery

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
-- George Eliot

#Happiness #Misery #Worst

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.
-- George Orwell

#Animal #Slavery #Misery

Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.
-- George Osborne

#People #Looks #Misery

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

#Misery #States #Democratic

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.
-- Gordon Parks

#Hate #Cameras #Misery

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.
-- Gordon Parks

#Cameras #Misery #Shows

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.
-- Grant-Lee Phillips

#Inspiration #Thinking #Misery

Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again.
-- Greg Behrendt

#Dating #Bored #Misery

ObamaCare is creating nothing but misery for everybody.
-- Greg Gutfeld

#Obamacare #Creating #Misery

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

#Sadness #Misery #Admiration

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
-- Groucho Marx

#Money #Misery #Form

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#Love #Decision #Misery

Complaints bring misery; compliments brings strength.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#Complaining #Misery #Compliment

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

#Running #Misery #Spit