Quotes About Misery

Whiners feel helpless and overwhelmed by an unfair world. Their standard is perfection, and no one and nothing measures up to it. But misery loves company, so they bring their problems to you. Offering solutions makes you bad company, so their whining escalates.

Women invented misery, but we don't understand it.

you cannot conquer fear until you have learned what it is you're afraid of." Then she added, "I had passed thirty-five before I realized that one can no more neglect chronic unhappiness than one can neglect an infected tooth. If misery, like a tooth, is left too long to fester the infection spreads and deepens.

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

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

Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.

The devil is the author of confusion.

The socialist doctrines that appeared in the first half of the nineteenth century, Marxism included, were gospels of radical change addressed to the alleviation of this misery. Friedrich Engels himself was one of the first to point out the resemblance between this historical situation and that in which Christianity arose.

Act before it becomes impossible to disentangle one strand of misery from another, or to see how the whole thing started.

See Mastery as Salvation The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only by surrendering to the Pattern can you begin to have some control over the course of your own life. If you fight, the Pattern will still force you, and you will find only misery where you might have found contentment instead.

Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!

Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.

I didn't know if I was unhappy. I felt too miserable to be unhappy.

You sound so miserable.""All novelists are.

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a chill. But the truth was that she died from poverty, from the filth and the weariness of her wretched life.

All that was really there was still more misery -- oh yes! as much of that as you like.

Labor is a blessing, toil is the misery of man.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.