Quotes About Misery

With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and it shall be burned down.

There are two miseries in life that are truly painful; one is that when we can't be with the one we love and the other is when we see our loved ones not getting their happiness.

Your enemies don't care about you or your life so stop listening to their opinions of you. Their job is to make you miserable.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.

Pain may cause misery, pain may give you sorrow. It may trouble you today, but will be gone tomorrow. Pain has its ways; it surely comes, but never stays.

Tell me," he said, "who gives better offerings, a miserable man or a happy one?" "A happy one, of course." "Wrong," he said. "A happy man is too occupied with his life. He thinks he is beholden to no one. But make him shiver, kill his wife, cripple his child, then you will hear from him. He will starve his family for a month to buy you a pure-white yearling calf. If he can afford it, he will buy you a hundred.

Joan is altijd ontevreden en ze rust niet voordat een ander dat ook is. Het enige waar zij blij van wordt is andere mensen net zo ongelukkig maken als zij. Ze wil graag gezelschap in die ongelukkige ontevredenheid van haar.

You know what you have to do to win an Oscar these days? Play a character who's lost an arm, or a leg, or a mother, or a father, or preferably all of the above. Make it miserable and squalid and base, so people will cry their eyes out and call you a genius, but if you inspire people or make them laugh? You're not even under consideration when awards season rolls around. I'm sick of this cultural hegemony of depression.

there misery and calamity have begun'.

when she called to mind all this utter and crushing misery that had come upon my aunts' old music-master, she was moved to very real grief, and shuddered to think of that other grief, so different in its bitterness, which Mlle. Vinteuil must now be feeling, tinged with remorse at having virtually killed her father.

Only supreme in misery!

and miserable it is to be to others cause of misery...

Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell. And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of hell. With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery. Such joy ambition finds.

In horrible destruction laid thus low,   As far as Gods and Heav'nly Essences   Can Perish: for the mind and spirit remains   Invincible, and vigour soon returns,   Though all our Glory extinct, and happy state   Here swallow'd up in endless misery.

she will find a way to make the rest of your natural existence one of unceasing woe and misery.

I used to be rather like you,' the doctor said vaguely, looking somewhat bored, ' All misery is invented.' After a moment he turned back to Boris and smiled. Happiness, too, I daresay.

The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

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

Say no to misery, be happy and enjoy every moment of your life, no one can take your happiness away unless you allow it to happen; misery loves company and it's always looking for a new victim.

Pain may create misery,Pain may give you Sorrow. It may trouble you Today but will be gone Tomorrow. Pain has its ways; it comes but never stays.

If you try to control everything, and then worry about the things you can't control, you are setting yourself up for a lifetime of frustration and misery.