Misery Quotes

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

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.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

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

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

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

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.