Quotes About Misery

who fate gave the ability to hear and smell and touch better than anybody in the world can ---- which is a great way to catch all the misery of being alive.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

I am so miserable, there are so many questions, I can see no way out and am so wretched and feeble that I could lie forever on the sofa and keep opening and closing my eyes without knowing the difference.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

Solzhenitsyn emerged from the grinding misery of the gulag as a fearless man of God whose prophetic witness to the world helped bring down an evil empire.

Theres no misery in not being loved, only in not loving

If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.

When you are a crank, you put yourself on the top of the list of people you make miserable.

from the moment when the priests use the pulpit as a means of political struggle against the working classes, the workers must fight against the enemies of their rights and their liberation. For he who defends the exploiters and who helps to prolong this present regime of misery, he is the mortal enemy of the proletariat, whether he be in a cassock or in the uniform of the police.

We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery...It's not a life.

He couldn't have explained this misery of his, it exceeded his education.

We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal, and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery; He's our lord and master!

Note accordingly that in all countries the penalties for petty theft are extremely severe, not only as a means of defending society, but also as a stern admonition to the unfortunate to know their place, stick to their caste, and behave themselves, joyfully resigned to go on dying of hunger and misery down through the centuries forever and ever . . .

Me abruma la miseria humana, ya sea física o moral. Siempre existió, está bien; pero en los viejos tiempos se ofrecía a un Dios, cualquiera. Hoy, en el mundo, hay millones de personas indigentes, y su angustia ya no va a ninguna parte. Nuestro tiempo, además, es un tiempo de miseria sin arte, es lamentable. El hombre está desnudo, despojado de todo, incluso de la fe en sí mismo

Still, despite the satisfaction of their surface lives, Cora Grovians share in full measure the pain that is the basis of all human misery: the fact that we can never be as important to anyone else as we are to ourselves. There simply is never enough love.

That's all they discussed, those neighbors of my mother's: who had died; who was just about to drop dead; who was getting married to whom, so that they could have a miserable life together and then die.

I had no children, I did not transmit to any creature the legacy of our misery.

It seems that misery had cured his soul, to the point that it made him feel like mud.

I saw everything that was passing before me—torments and delights—from that thing called glory to the other one called misery, and I saw love multiplying misery and I saw misery intensifying weakness.'' The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis

There was no Christian resignation or philosophical acceptance in him. It seemed that misery had calloused his soul to the point of taking away the feeling of the mud.'' The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis

Why is it that married people always say Come in when everything they do says Get out? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried.