Misery Quotes

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.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

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

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

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

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

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.

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

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

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job.

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.