Quotes About Misery

Maybe he saw that my mystery was, at bottom, nothing but misery.

Must it be, that what makes for a man's happiness becomes the source for his misery?

I see no end to my misery but the grave.

The source of all misery lies concealed within me, as the source of all happiness did formerly.

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. May

Hast thou, then, nothing more to mention? Com'st ever, thus, with ill intention? Find'st nothing right on earth, eternally? MEPHISTOPHELES No, Lord! I find things, there, still bad as they can be. Man's misery even to pity moves my nature; I've scarce the heart to plague the wretched creature.

Did it really have to be like this?__that the source of Man's contentment becomes the source of his misery?

Must it ever be thus,—that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery?

Righteousness brings happiness. Wickedness never does. If there were no God, no plan, no law, and no divine order, there would be no reason wickedness would not bring happiness. But it never does. The history of civilization is a testament that hedonism, perversion, brutality, corruption, and wickedness sow seeds of misery, sorrow, and destruction. It is not a quirk of evolution. It is evidence of a divinely appointed plan.12

Sometimes we have 2 Nephi 2:25 "joy" days, and sometimes we have Moses 6:48 "misery and woe" days.

He who is most deeply abased and alarmed, by the consciousness of his disgrace, nakedness, want, and misery, has made the greatest progress in the knowledge of himself.

For unless we realize our own helpless misery, we shall never know how much we need the remedy which Christ brings, nor come to him with the fervent love we owe him. But

So also Augustine, "The suffering at which you cry, is medicine, not punishment; chastisement, not condemnation. Do not drive away the rod, if you would not be driven away from the inheritance. Know, brethren, that the whole of that misery of the human race, under which the world groans, is a medicinal pain, not a penal sentence

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God

Misery loved company, but damnation needed it.

As Sicknesse is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes is solitude; when the infectiousness of the disease deterss them who should assist from coming; even the Phisician dares scarse come... it is an Outlawry, and excommunication upon the patient....

The wretched have no friends.

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.