Misery Quotes - Page 18

There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

Everyone is scared of having a free sexual life and what they do is go on the Internet and masturbate. This is the pure sexual misery today. They don't even go to the movie theater like in the '70s.

Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives in misery, which has led to violent confrontation throughout the century.

Happiness comes from moving toward something. When you run away, ofttimes you bring your misery with you.

I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.

I'm the author of my own misery.

Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.

As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery

You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.