Misery Quotes

When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous.

Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.

Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.