Misery Quotes - page 2

The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown. (Samuel Daniel)
Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. View quote
Charles Darwin
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable. View quote
George Eliot
Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, "Ugh" ..." View quote
Louis C.K.
O suffering, sad humanity O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery. View quote
Francis Picabia
You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented. View quote
Brooke Shields
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? View quote
Joseph Addison
A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. (P. G. Wodehouse)
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. View quote
Margaret Drabble
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. View quote
Philip Larkin
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. View quote
Publilius Syrus
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. View quote
John Calvin
And mighty poets in their misery dead. View quote
William Wordsworth
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. View quote
Addison Mizner
Misery is a communicable disease. View quote
Martha Graham
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust. (Albert Schweitzer)
Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none. View quote
Herman Melville
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. View quote
Winston Churchill
The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality it strikes at the rootof all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley