Misery Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

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.

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.