Quotes About Misery

It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

His words brought back to her the misery of her journey home after their last meeting for the mark of the hours she had spent since she had left him had cut deeply, the wounds were raw and the memory of pain came through her happiness and she did not think she could bear to be hurt again.

You Know What They Say About Hope. It Breeds Eternal Misery. -Spencer Hastings

I worked in cable news for a long time, but I'm not a pundit. I'm just not. I'm grateful to people that are, but I was really miserable trying to do that. I just wanted to be myself.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

It's time to recognize that the EU is beyond reform and deserves to be put out of its misery.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

That stab in the heart she felt when she woke, and the panicky doubt that her life was in her grasp, not fraud or failure, not entirely - that was a brief misery and one she could set aside by putting the light on and reading for a while. She used to ask herself, What more could I wish? But she always distrusted that question, because she knew there were limits to her experience that precluded her knowing what there was to be wished.

Having witnessed in his own life much agony and the horrors of war, Kepler concluded that Earth really created two notes, mi for misery (miseria in Latin) and fa for famine (fames in Latin). In Kepler's words: the Earth sings MI FA MI, so that even from the syllable you may guess that in this home of ours Misery and Famine hold sway.

Ninguna sociedad puede ser próspera y feliz si la mayoría de sus miembros son pobres y miserables»

Ninguna sociedad puede ser próspera y feliz si la mayoría de sus miembros son pobres y miserables

He had known in times of the greatest misery or danger that his dreams of home, in which all things seemed beautiful, were in essence his longing for the woman for whom he had been made. That was how, as a soldier, he had seen it, and it was how he had come through.

If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective.

Misery If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective.

An unhappily married woman is necessarily a bad cook.

Life is, of course, terrible.

I found later that she was indeed what is called 'a tease', perhaps the only outward indication that her inner life was not altogether happy; since there is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

she could not but tell herself that when Paradise had been opened to her, she had declared herself to be fit only for Pandemonium. In that was her chief misery; that now, — now when it was too late, — she could look at it aright.