Misery Quotes - Page 5

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.

Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery?

The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.

She (Judy Garland) was a friend of mine, a trying friend, but a friend. That is what I tell myself: She did everything she ever wanted to do. She never really denied herself anything for me. See, I say, she had a wonderful life; she did what she wanted to do. And I have no right to change her fulfillment into my misery. I'm on my own broom now.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?