Quotes About Misery

They were all children who had previously failed to fit in, or had failed, to the point of acute misery, to feel satisfied, and they had seized on creative impulse in the hope of salvation.

El vasto catálogo fotográfico de la miseria y la injusticia en el mundo entero le ha dado a cada cual determinada familiaridad con lo atroz, volviendo más ordinario lo horrible, haciéndolo familiar.

There are people in this world, whose lives are nothing but a burden to them. A black veil stands between them and the world. They are utterly alone. They are like shadows in the night, shut off from joy and all gentle human emotions, unable to even give comfort to each other. Their days are full of nothing but darkness, misery and solitude.

The creation of the factory required exceptional ingenuity, obsession, and misery. We have inherited its miraculous productive power and long history of exploitation without giving it much thought.

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

O repentinamente se me acabó el impulso, el amor a la situación y sus problemas, la alegría indudable que me daba estar metido en el centro mismo de aquella miseria perfecta que parecía, asombrosamente, haber sido inventada para mí y por mí.

Misery is home ground, and she has only ever made excursions into the far country of happiness.

the sum of unhappiness is always greater than the parts

Oakley won't," the duke said. She turned and blinked. "I beg your pardon." "Lord Oakley. He won't forget to find us rooms. I've known him for years. The only thing that is making this bearable is that he must be dying inside over all this." "You don't like him?" "On the contrary. I've long considered him a friend. It's why I enjoy his misery so much.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

I've spent all the years since full of guilt and misery, even though I didn't remember it. I've let it run my thoughts, my plans, my whole life. But the experience doesn't own me. I own it. What I do with it is up to me, just like what Molly does with her death magic is up to her.

The rest of us can find happiness in misery.

The pain is real!

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Self-imposed misery is a kind of madness. The cure is to get

Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Nothing brings more joy than a good marriage, and nothing brings more misery than a bad marriage.

Some of the most miserable people I have ever met have been people who are very popular with the public, but down inside are empty and miserable.

The [Bible's] message is concerned with earth dwellers, their origin, the reason for their existence, the cause of their misery, and the plan of redemption for a fallen race.

Sleep no more, Cypris, beneath thy purple coverlet, but awake to thy misery; put on the sable robe and fall to beating thy breast, and tell it to the world: The beauteous Adonis is dead.

Every night, and every morn, Some to misery are born. Every morn, and every night, Some are born to sweet delight.

it's my only defense against a beautiful misery.