Misery Quotes

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

Misery loves company.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.

Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

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

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.