Misery Quotes

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. (Dante Alighieri)
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. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. View quote
Victor Hugo
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. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery. View quote
Matthew Arnold
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. View quote
Joseph Addison
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. View quote
Woody Allen
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. View quote
Edith Wharton
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. View quote
Albert Camus
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. View quote
Václav Havel
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. View quote
Jane Austen
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. View quote
Richard Hooker
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. View quote
Theodore Dreiser
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
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. View quote
Robertson Davies
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. (Spike Milligan)
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. View quote
William Shakespeare
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. View quote
Federico Fellini
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. View quote
Joseph Conrad
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt