Misery Quotes - Page 17

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

Misery and shame are nearly allied.

You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what it is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery.

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity.

If life is misery, why do we endure it?

Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.

Naught so sweet as melancholy.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Misery loves company, but happy is a better friend.

If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

Religion exists not because of God or for God; it is because of marriage. Marriage creates so much misery that one has to meditate; meditation is a byproduct. Without marriage, who will bother to meditate? For what? You will be already blissful!

If you are happy, you are happy; nobody asks you why you are happy. Yes, if you are miserable, a question is relevant. If you are miserable, somebody can ask why you are miserable, and the question is relevant - because misery is against nature, something wrong is happening. When you are happy, nobody asks you why you are happy, except for a few neurotics. There are such people; I cannot deny the possibility.

Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death, beyond time, beyond misery.

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.

Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable.

Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair, and it can also be a dance. It all depends how deeply ready you are to accept existence, whatsoever it brings.

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one,” he said. “Life can be difficult for everyone,” she replied. “Misery makes no distinction between prince and pauper.

Misery alternates with euphoria.