Quotes About Misery

Let's don't be too hot headed and let's don't have any war. Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

It was no mere fancy. Fancy does not remold a man in a moment. Fancy has its ups and downs, its hot minutes and-its cold. This was a steady inspiration; an enlarge¬ ment of the soul such as I had hitherto been a stranger to, and which I knew then, as plainly as I do now, would serve to make my happiness or my misery as Fortune lent her aid or passed me coldly by.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.

O Reader! If there were less of this delicate concealment of facts- this whispering ''Peace, Peace, when there is no peace- there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience.

That moon upon her spirit Sheds sweet, celestial balm, The thought, like Angel's whisper, My misery would calm. And when, at early morning, A faint flush comes to me Reflected from those glowing skies I almost weep to see;

Misfortunes never come singly.

I could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable.

This of all the misery in the world and be thankful that you are not sharing in it.

I could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable. All we can do is wait, as calmly as possible, for it to end...the whole world is waiting, and many are waiting for death.

While washing up, Bep began talking to Mother and Mrs van Daan about how discourages she gets. What help did those two offer her? Our tactless mother, especially, only made things go from bad to worse. Do you know what her advice was? That she should think about all the other people in the world who are suffering! How can thinking about the misery of others help if you're miserable yourself?

What's the good of thinking of misery when you're already miserable? That's stupid!

Her happiness swept the house in a whirlwind; her misery wrapped it in a purple gloom.

There are many kinds of misery, and many kinds of fortitude, and you should not allow your awareness of one to build to the value of another.

I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.

You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable.

I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment in a welter of shudders and salted, bloodstained tears.

Some of us are infinitely better at being miserable than happy.

You aren't enjoying my misery, are you?" I admitted with a little sigh of defeat. "No, of course not," Armand said, "only, as usual, you don't really seem miserable. You're on the verge of an adventure, and just a little more cautious this time than when you let that mortal run off with your body and you took his." "No, not more cautious. Terrified. I think this creature, Memnoch, is the Devil.

And it was not merely the dry hissing coil of the thirst that was quenched and dissolved, it was all my craving, all the want and misery and hunger that I had ever known.

The true crafty evil person is rare. It's bumbling that causes most of the misery of the world, utter stupid bumbling.

He was shaking his head, biting into his lower lip, fighting the sheer misery of the anticipation, when he realized that another figure was standing directly opposite, on the other side of the fire, quite visible above the leaping flames, gazing at him.

I think to be this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.