Quotes About Misery

The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery."

Oh, measure it all out! Acceptable levels of misery and suffering!' The cane swung down, thumped hard on the ground. 'Acceptable? Who the fuck says any level is acceptable? What sort of mind thinks that?' Karsa grinned, 'Why, a civilized one.' 'Indeed!' Shadowthrone turned to Cotillion. 'And you doubted this one!

Hay una vieja expresión que dice: «A la miseria le gusta estar acompañada», y la gente que sufre en el infierno no quiere estar sola.

Once there was a certain lady . . . And she had no children, and generally no happiness either. And so first she cried for a long time, and then she became wicked . . .

Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'.

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.

You don't know what torture is. You don't know what you're talking about. You really don't know what you're talking about.

They prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively knows of these things. The architecture of misery has an unmistakable look and feel about it.

It is by their own actions, good or bad, that men are happy or miserable. The virtues or vices of others will not affect us in the least.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

La causa de la miseria humana evitable no suele ser tanto la estupidez como la ignorancia, particularmente la ignorancia de nosotros mismos.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly ignorance about ourselves.

there is no greater misery than to remember, with bitter regret, a day when you were happy 

The institution of the state "bound new fetters on the poor, and gave new powers to the rich … fixed forever the laws of property and inequality; converted clever usurpation into inalienable right; and for the sake of a few ambitious men, subjected all mankind to perpetual labour, servitude and misery." These are not Marx's words, but (as we have seen already) those of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his Discourse on Inequality.

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

The amassing of evil brings misery. The accumulation of good brings blessings.

There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.

How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?

Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.

The world runs," Lowell said, "on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don't mind what they don't see. Make them look and they mind, but you're the one they hate, because you're the one that made them look.

Just die. It'll end everyone's misery, including your own.

This strain of virulent misery, this falling out of love, caused different symptoms, unique disruptions, in dogs and humans.