Misery Quotes

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'.

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

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.

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

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

People in misery is what most important in art.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.