Misery Quotes

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

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

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

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

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

Misery loves company.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.

Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.