Misery Quotes - Page 20

False fancy brings real misery.

Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

The childless escape much misery.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

The whole "misery loves company" thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the other person is doing fine is simply too much to bear.

The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

I'm evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I'm evil, so don't mess around with me.

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone.

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.

Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been possible... that you could have returned the love of the man you see before yourself- flung away, wasted, drunken, poor creature of misure as you know him to be- he would have been conscious this day and hour, in spite of his happiness, that he would bring you misery, bring you to sorrow and repetance, blight you, disgrace you, pull you down with him

It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been possible... that you could have returned the love of the man you see before yourself- flung away, wasted, drunken, poor creature of misure as you know him to be- he would have been conscious this day and hour, in spite of his happiness, that he would bring you misery, bring you to sorrow and repetance, blight you, disgrace you, pull you down with him

Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.