Misery Quotes - Page 10

Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

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

Misery is a match that never goes out.

Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it’s a formula for misery.

When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only with the Divine, not with anyone else, as that will only increase the problems. Share your joy with everyone. Listen to others; yet do not listen. If your mind gets stuck in their problems, not only are they miserable, but you also become miserable.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

We've seen what violent regime change looks like in Libya and the kind of chaos that can be unleashed. And, indeed, the kind of misery that it enacts on its own people.

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.