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Quotes About Misery

The most ignorant and degenerate of them will be asked to shoulder a gun and fight for a civilization which has brought them nothing but misery and degradation.
~ Henry Miller
My world of human beings has perished; I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and the streets spoke to me in that sad, bitter language compounded of human misery, yearning, regret, failure, wasted effort.
~ Henry Miller
Unless progress with agricultural yields remains very strong, the next century will experience sheer human misery that, on a numerical scale, will exceed the worst of everything that has come before.
~ Norman Borlaug
The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.
~ Steven Biko
August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.
~ Henry Rollins
It is an amazing feature in the French character that they will let themselves be led away so easily by bad counsels and yet return again so quickly. It is certain that as these people have, out of their misery, treated us so well, we are the more bound to work for their happiness.
~ Marie Antoinette
There's nothing worse than walking into a hospital and seeing people sick and miserable and having a horrible treatment.
~ Anne Wojcicki
Remember, pain and misery are transient and ephemeral but love has the healing power, which is eternal.
~ Debasish Mridha
Miseries are often an option and it depends on perception.
~ Debasish Mridha
You have the power within you to choose a life of love and beauty or choose a life of misery and destruction. What you chose, that you will attract and that you will manifest.
~ Debasish Mridha
At some point, even the greatest misery begins to fade. Life, or what passes for life, plods on in it's own unending weary footsteps, and somehow we plod along with it, if we stay lucky.
~ Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Dead
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
~ Samuel Johnson
Despair … is the ultimate development of a pride so great and so stiff-necked that it selects the absolute misery of damnation rather than accept happiness from the hands of God and thereby acknowledge that He is above us and that we are not capable of fulfilling our destiny by ourselves.
~ Stephen Adly Guirgis
Instead of expressing deep hurt, the wounded female lives a miserable existence and gripes and complains about everything. She becomes addicted to her misery because it allows her to forget about her anger, or at least postpone dealing with it. Her dependency on misery is just as difficult to break as someone else's dependency on crack cocaine. Both are means to a different reality that allows for pain to be deferred.
~ Stephen Arterburn
If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable.
~ Stephen Colbert
primary distortion in my dharma life has been the age-old misery of self-absorption.
~ Stephen Cope
You know that easy money, stupid people, and hard times have a way of creating misery.
~ Stephen Hunter
You know that easy money, stupid people, and hard times have a way of creating misery. Your
~ Stephen Hunter
It was Arthur's welcome alone, I believe, which turned the tide of misery for Merlin.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
We are closest to Christ when sharing the world's misery. Think you Jesus came to remove our pains? Wherever did you get that notion? The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond. We can overcome our travails. That is the promise of the cross.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
Happiness is something we reap from the seeds we sow. Plant misery seeds and that us what you reap.
~ Stephen Richards
And Goodness knows The Wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The Wicked die alone
~ Stephen Schwartz
Theres a hole in the world like a great black pit and its filled with people who are filled with shit
~ Stephen Sondheim