Misery Quotes

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

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

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

People in misery is what most important in art.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.

Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.