Misery Quotes - Page 14

Misery is the River of the World

Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.

Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused by ourselves, and none else in the universe is to blame. God is the least to blame for it.

You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.

Change only one thing, change from misery to bliss. from sadness to celebration. And it can be done very easily because misery is an unnatural thing.

Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.

Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.

Seems it's my destiny for love to cause me misery.

Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.

All pleasures contain an element of sadness.

The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.