Misery Quotes - Page 4

Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'

He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

There's no misery in not being loved, only in not loving.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.

It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.

The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.

There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery

There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don’t have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time.

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

Wine and women bring misery.

See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery.

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.