Misery Quotes

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Misery is a match that never goes out.

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

There is winning and there is misery.

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

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

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

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.