Misery Quotes

Women invented misery, but we don't understand it.

Against Self-PityIt gets you nowhere but deeper intoyour own shit--pure misery a luxuryone never lea...

Miseries of a birth.

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

And the child—your child—was born there in the midst of misery. It was a deadly place: strange, ever...

The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horri...

She gave him a strange maternal grin.For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheld...

When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin.

You're like a man who loves nothing better than a thick steak but wouldn't last an hour in a slaught...

It was never for you, Annie, or all the other people out there who sign their letters “Your number-o...

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, ...

We see her go through dangerous mood-swings, but I tried never to come right out and say "Annie was ...

Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.

Only you could be more important than what I wanted...what I needed. What I want and what I need is ...

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not ...

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserab...

She went indoors in that peculiar state of misery which is not exactly grief, and which especially a...

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have affl...

Stone me, what a life!

But why, everybody asks, am I not blessed by fortune (or at least not as blessed as I would like to ...

They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are co...

Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its...

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its...

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garmen...

I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what ...

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me...

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in ...

What rent do you pay here?" I inquired. "I don’t know,—what is it, Sam?" "All we make," answered Sam...

I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which...

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He woul...

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, w...

And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if on...

"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."

I seeIn many an eye that measures meThe mortal sickness of a mindToo unhappy to be kind.Undone with ...

In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed f...

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their miser...

The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is...

You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid...

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. ...

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery.

He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with a...

A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and p...

If Iona's heart were to burst and his misery to flow out, it would flood the whole world, it seems, ...

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we...

It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when K...

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep sile...

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't mer...

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparit...

Magnus rolled onto his back and put his feet up on the arm of the sofa. “What do you care if Alec’s ...

But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting...

...wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. ...

Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.

as long as there arehuman beings aboutthere is never going to beany peacefor any individualupon this...

We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to ...

Misery generates hate.

If I have become my father, then I shall have my father's blade. Thorn is my dragon, and a thorn he ...

How could anyone catch all of the beauty in the Present Moment, when, after years of misery, there w...

The days passed, the weeks. But everything seemed to have fused, gone into a conglomerated mass. He ...

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind al...

I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made t...

I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mo...

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with d...

I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its ...

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yours...

But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by rev...

Mr. Heathcliff, you have nobody to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall still have...

You shall not leave me in that temper.I should be miserable all night, and I won’t be miserable for ...

All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Th...

I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium...

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly m...

I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seein...

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Music heals all forms of misery

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

I have been in my bed for five weeks, oppressed with weakness and other infirmities from which my ag...

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy ...

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life—the life which has a seed of ennobling th...

He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had for...

She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down...

Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, lab...

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs...

The human mind is a lucky little local, passing accident which was totally unforeseen, and condemned...