Misery Quotes - Page 6

Then we heard the rumours: that the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the world. Restore it? Why? I like the death! I like the misery! I like this world!

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

It is equally important to investigate wellness as it is to study misery.

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery

Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

Misery starts with a person's reactions to someone or something outside of his or herself. In truth, it is not the event or situation or what others are saying or doing that is the problem; it's our reaction that is triggered by what we believe these words and events mean.

If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.

Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Why was I born, if just to live in misery

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

Happiness can be just as contagious as misery.

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.