Misery Quotes

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

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.