Misery Quotes - Page 12

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

I like to be myself. Misery loves company

The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.

Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.

Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.

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

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.

All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.

I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.