Quotes About Misery

Well." Glokta looked towards the summer revellers. So near to them, yet somehow in a different world. "I have often said that life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Even for me. There's nothing like the company of someone even more wretched than yourself to make you feel better. Trouble is, take their misery away and your own presses in twice as cold and dreary behind it.

A wise friend describes therapy as an encounter that takes us out of our misery and places us into our pain.

Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only. It is the sole source of everything of our strength, happiness, and misery. All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.

Men's wretchedness in soothe I so deplore, Not even I would plague the sorry creatures more.

Poor souls! their miseries seem so much to please 'em, I scarce can find it in my heart to tease 'em.

Es que tenía que ser así, que lo que hace la felicidad del hombre sea también la fuente de su desdicha?

Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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.

love is of the body; not the body, but of the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!