Quotes About Misery

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

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

Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them.

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

Wealth is all misery and sickness to the brain, try not to put yourself deep in it, it shall erase your humanity feelings.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?

Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.