Misery Quotes

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.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

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.

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.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

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.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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.

Misery is a match that never goes out.

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

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.

Misery is a communicable disease.

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

As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.