Quotes About Misery

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

Trabajad, trabajad, proletarios, para aumentar la fortuna social y vuestras miserias individuales; trabajad, trabajad para que, haciéndoos cada vez más pobres, tengáis más razón de trabajar y de ser miserables." (1848, 11) Paul Lafargue, The Right to Be Lazy

So many people are miserable. They need someone to entertain them. Why can't it be me?

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

Finding these ancient artifacts always gave him a chill. They reminded him how small and insignificant he was. Even how small and insignificant his misery was—merely one clipped scream among the barrage of screams and long, keening wails that comprised all of human life on earth from the first mortal forward.

Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it.

Fanatics," Kandara replied automatically. "I'm no longer surprised by what they do, by the misery and suffering they inflict on others. Ideology is a sick-soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause.

So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.

For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.

“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.

Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a manís misery weighs heavily upon him.

ruin and misery lie in their wake,

Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.