Misery Quotes - Page 2

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

What else is there for the rich to do, If not to relieve the poor of their misery?

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.

Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery.

You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.

We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.

Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery.

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

I saw the abyss of my misery; whatever there is of good in me is Yours, O Lord. But because I am so small and wretched, I have a right to count on Your boundless mercy.

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

Misery motivates, not utopia.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.