Quotes About Misery

We have to be careful about what we project out into the future, because nothing else has the potential to create more unhappiness and emotional misery than an unfulfilled expectation.

All present life is but an interjection, An "Oh!" or "Ah!" of joy or misery Or a "Ha, ha!" or "Bah!"—a yawn, or "Pooh!" Of which perhaps the latter is most true. —LORD BYRON

This is not a happy story, it doesn't begin or end well, and the middle is equally dreadful.

Still, it is argued that millions of people benefit from such programs. Of course, trillions of dollars in government expenditures over many years most assuredly benefit the recipients of subsidies or other related payments. But this does not change the arithmetic. The eventual collapse of a colossal government venture will indiscriminately engulf an entire society and economy, including its millions of beneficiaries and benefactors, resulting in widespread disorder and misery.

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery.

Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age.

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Misery loves company, but company just wants to be friends.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. —Shantideva, ninth-century Indian mystic

Self-pity is the mother of misery, bearing first a small pain, then eventually growing to consume all the joy we could have experienced. Reject self-pity and choose joy as quickly as possible.

Misery is a communicable disease.

these severely traumatized patients, people who have been through living nightmares, people who might blamelessly choose death, often emerge from successful treatment by constructing lives for themselves that are freer than most ordinary lives from what Sigmund Freud, a century ago, labeled as "everyday misery." They become true keepers of the faith and are the most passionately alive people I know. Or

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Your life shall hang in doubt before you; night and day you shall be in dread, and have no assurance of your life. In the morning you shall say: 'Would it were evening!' and at evening you shall say: 'Would it were morning!'" I have not found a place which sets forth the misery of a bad conscience so clearly, with such fitting and appropriate words and expressions.

Every night and every morn Some to misery are born. William Blake, 1757-1827, 'Auguries of Innocence

E ela se perguntou como era possível fazer da miséria uma religião.

Love is a crazy thing. It sucks and is totally overrated.

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