Top 25 Misery Quotes of 513 - Page 15

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

Hugh Blair

Unhappy, Misery, Cruelty

Hugh Blair, Alfred Howard (Esq.) (1810). “The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.18

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

George Orwell

Animal, Slavery, Misery

David Ball, George Orwell (1984). “George Orwell's Animal Farm”, p.29, Barron's Educational Series

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Feelings, Charity, Misery

Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.

Frederick Lenz

Yoga, Misery, Hinduism

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

Frank Herbert

Misery, Force, Humans

Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.89, Penguin

Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

Misery, Friend Love

"How to Save Your Own Life". Book by Erica Jong, 1977.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Atmosphere, Want, Misery

The bliss of the Creator forever permeates all of creation, and it is only in the forgetting that misery exists.

Doreen Virtue

Forever, Misery, Forget

Twitter post from Mar 03, 2017

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

Craig Thompson

Heaven, World, Misery

Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Sorrow, Misery, Sorrowful

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.209

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

Benjamin Franklin

Thinking, Misery, Habit

Misery makes sport to mock itself.

William Shakespeare

Sports, Misery, Mock

William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.870, Oxford University Press

Without bread all is misery.

William Cobbett

Bread, Misery

William Cobbett (1824). “Cottage Economy: Containing Information Relative to the Brewing of Beer, Making of Bread, Keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry and Rabbits, and Relative to Other Matters Deemed Useful in the Conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family: To which are Added, Instructions Relative to the Selecting, the Cutting and the Bleaching of the Plants of English Grass and Grain, for the Purpose of Making Hats and Bonnets”, p.43

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

William Blake

Kings, Heaven, Misery

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.170, Pearson Education

I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.

Walter Savage Landor

Dancing, Together, Misery

Walter Savage Landor, Marguerite Blessington (Countess of), John Francis Mariani (1973). “The letters of Walter Savage Landor to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington”

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

W. Somerset Maugham

Misery, Mood, Things To Do

W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.229, Random House

I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.

Vladimir Nabokov

Art, Misery, Melancholy

Vladimir Nabokov (2010). “Lolita”, p.283, Vintage

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

Victoria Abril

People, Television, Misery

The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's what we get. If we choose misery, we get that, too.

Tony Robbins

Inspirational, World, Misery

Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.87, Simon and Schuster