Misery Quotes - Page 7

If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.

In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.

Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of orgasm of negativity.'... The Brits don't merely enjoy misery, they get off on it.

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

(The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any Persons at all upon a necessity of making such an Option, wherein if they choose amiss, the Misery they incur must be irrevocable.

Sometimes you're not supposed to enjoy it [acting]. You're supposed to cooperate with misery and proceed anyway. But what I do enjoy is a sense of well-being and just participating in life and life's turns.

The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.

You know we have Democratic centrists here to blame for the economic conditions driving this rightwing extremism. So the solution here, you know, is not Hillary Clinton and more of the Clintonism centrist, the centrist Clinton philosophy that is greeding this economic misery.

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.