Misery Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Misery loves company.

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

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

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

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

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.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.