Quotes About Misery

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and relaxes not her efforts in our behalf.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.

discipline should result in mercy, not misery.

Laura felt now completely detached from her body. It was, she considered, simply a piece of machinery that was running down. But how could the separation be made? How could she find herself without this machine that labored for breath and rejected food and sent her into misery with the coughing? It could not be tamed. It could not be cajoled. It had, she felt, to be quite simply rejected as irrelevant.

Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your brash and insolent beauty, your heavy comedic face and knowledge of sweet delights, but from a distance I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery.

Momma convinced us that not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. The

It's hard to make the prettiest clothes fit a miserable man.

Misery is a faithful company keeper, and Comfort was dissolving under its attention.

He looked at me squarely, forcing me to face my fears. Now My, if you're happy being miserable, enjoy it, but don't ask me to feel sorry for you. Just get all down in it and wallow around. Take your time to savor all its subtleties, but don't come to me expecting sympathy.

I couldn't distinguish whether I was smelling the clutching sound of misery or hearing the cloying odor of death.

I want to go home." His first reaction was to shout, "Nay!" It took all his restraint not to shout the denial. A cold fist of dread clenched his throat and squeezed relentlessly. She wasn't happy. Even a fool could see that she was miserable.

A dedication to irrationality grows more difficult to renounce with each reiteration of unreason, for the deluded must increasingly face the shame not only of his folly but of the misery it begets. As the tally grows, the likelihood of self-correction diminishes; and the committed one-worlder, now chained to his oars, must insulate himself against both reality and countervailing opinion. He does so handily by demonizing those trying to restore him to sanity.

So this is pain. So this is wretchedness. So this is misery. I never knew. -Jack

The reasons for bearing young should simply be love and respect for the incipient child, and for the world they will be born into. If it took more effort to produce a child than the exercise of a moment's lust, perhaps there might be less misery in this world. Perhaps my gryphons will be happier creatures than their creator.

The next few weeks were a real struggle. Mental turmoil was a new emotion for me, and not a fun one. I felt I had let myself down, and that I had wasted four months of my life to hard, cold misery, and all for nothing. I was depressed and I felt useless. And that was on a good day.

Clearly, much of the violence in domestic life, both physical and verbal abuse, is linked to job misery. We can encourage friends and loved ones to move toward greater self-love by supporting them in any effort to leave work that assaults their well-being.