Misery Quotes

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

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.

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.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

Misery is a communicable disease.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.