Misery Quotes

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

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

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

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.

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.

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

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

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

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

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.