Misery Quotes - page 3

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together. (Thomas Otway)
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it. View quote
Patrick O'Brian
Most comedy comes out of misery. View quote
Seth Rogen
Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge. View quote
Irving Stone
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. View quote
Zhang Yimou
I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind - my wayward heart creates its own misery - Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of the whole of my existence, I must be content to weep and dance like a child - long for a toy, and be tired of it as soon as I get it. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional. View quote
Germaine Greer
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. View quote
Groucho Marx
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is, the distinction of men into KINGS and SUBJECTS. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth enquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind. View quote
Thomas Paine
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belong to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity. View quote
Graham Greene
My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions. (Vivien Leigh)
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth. View quote
George Eliot
Man's own form in space – his body – was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery – because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy. View quote
Willem de Kooning
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. View quote
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. View quote
Ralph Steadman
Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. View quote
Cicero
You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they would be crying out for tractors, and fertilizer, and irrigation canals, and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things. (Norman Borlaug)
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. View quote
Thornton Wilder
No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself. View quote
John Ruskin
Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ... View quote
Jane Addams
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead