Misery Quotes

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'.

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

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

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

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.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

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.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

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

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.

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.