Quotes About Misery

Misery has made more revolutions than either philanthropy or economics.

How do I stop this misery?" I groaned, scanning the shelves for a cure. "Don't go out there," he said flatly. I contemplated this reasonable observation for about sixteen seconds. Move to town. Hang out at the laundromat. Have eight children. Then I melted back into the pinon-juniper forest.

Anybody who is devoid of a living faith and God's Grace is a LIVING DEATH. That is to say, he or she or the life in question is a life of complete misery. -Emeasoba George

There is no limit to suffering.

For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

What misery a sensation is! Ecstasy itself, perhaps, is nothing more.

De n-aÅŸ cunoaÅŸte setea infinit? de tristeÅ£e,de n-aÅŸ iubi cu patim? t?v?lirea în dezn?dejde,nu m-aÅŸ mai putea suferi ÅŸi mi-aÅŸ ucide cugetul f?r? mil? ÅŸi f?r? îndurerare.AÅŸ vrea s? fiu undeva departe,f?r? oameni,f?r? Dumnezeu,f?r? m?ri ÅŸi f?r? mine.Dar s? port aÅŸa ispita nefericirii în sânge.

Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream or turn you to stone.

In Europe, happiness stops at Vienna. Beyond, misery upon misery, since the beginning.

O espetáculo do homem - que vomitivo! O amor - um encontro de duas salivas... Todos os sentimentos extraem seu absoluto da miséria das glândulas. Não há nobreza senão na negação da existência, em um sorriso que domina paisagens aniquiladas.

I remember a place I have been only if I have had the luck to experience utter misery there.

Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a chill. But the truth was that she died from poverty, from the filth and the weariness of her wretched life.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from trifles springs– Oh! let the ungentle spirit learn from thence A small unkindness is a great offence.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

Nothing discovers the deplorable state of depravity, to which the human mind is subject, by force of tradition, more than the unnatural and absurd notion of enhancing future bliss, by beholding fellow creatures of the nearest connexion in a state of indescribable misery, there to remain time without end!

Misery begets equality.

Floating in a dream, I watched her walk away. That she had come to me at the end of a long night of misery made me want to cry tears of joy. I wanted to tell her: "How happy I am that you came to me like an apparition in that bluish mist. Now everything around me will be a little bit better when I wake up." At last I was able to fall asleep.

The two of us may be in the epicenter of death, but I was hoping to spare you this misery. It could be like this for as long as we stay together.

drank themselves to death. However

There s only one way to deal with misery...I say Avoid it

Nessun maggior dolore, Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria.

Without me, without me, Everyday's misery. But with me - am I wrong? No night is too long!

Some of the angels by an act of free will obeyed the will of God, and in such obedience found perfect happiness; other angels by an act of free will rebelled against the will of God, and in such disobedience found misery.

The superstitious, who know how to reprove vices rather than how to teach virtues, and who strive, not to lead people by reason, but to restrain them by fear in such a way that they flee what is bad rather than love the virtues, simply intend all other people to be as miserable as they are, and so it is not surprising that they are for the most part irksome and hateful to human beings.