Quotes About Misery

Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.

Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness; it's almost pitiful.

I know a lot of ways to happiness! I also know some pretty fast shortcuts to misery.

It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

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

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

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

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

Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.

A man came to Budha and said, "I want happiness". Budha replied" Remove 'I", its your ego, Remove "want" its you source of misery, Now you are left with "happiness".

The path to misery is paved by the tears of those trying to make others happy.

I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.

MASSIMO: I will not let you give me up out of some misguided duty to God....You and I do not need to be alone to show devotion to God. Misery does not show true faith.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.