Misery Quotes

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

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.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

There is winning and there is misery.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Misery is a match that never goes out.