Misery Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.