Quotes About Misery

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

There is no greater misery than false joys.

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

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

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

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

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

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

I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.