Misery Quotes - page 24

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave. (Denis Kearney)
I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery. View quote
Danny Boyle
They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am. View quote
Elizabeth Wurtzel
So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result. View quote
Emily Mortimer
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. View quote
Eric Alterman
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. View quote
Ezra Cornell
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. View quote
Gifford Pinchot
I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery. View quote
Grant-Lee Phillips
Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again. View quote
Greg Behrendt
People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor. View quote
Ian Frazier
Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him. "A fine pair we make,” he said. "Yeah. (Ilona Andrews)
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. View quote
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three. View quote
Jenny Offill
I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly. View quote
John Scott
I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger. View quote
Jon Crosby
Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies. View quote
Jonathan Mayhew
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery. View quote
Jonathan Mayhew
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. View quote
Joseph Butler
Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world. View quote
Julian Baggini
Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction. View quote
Lynn Johnston
If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience. (Brian Moore)
I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is on that you either have never seen or haven't seen in years. Like 'Coming to America' or 'Misery' or 'Moonstruck.' View quote
Morena Baccarin
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway. View quote
Mario Monicelli
It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief. View quote
Nicos Anastasiades
Misery sells newspapers. View quote
Phil Gramm