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Quotes About Misery

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Some will make you Dance, some will make you Smile, and some will make your misery longer than a mile! Pleasure or Pain, the Choice is thine.
~ R.v.m.
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
~ Allen Toussaint
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
~ Janis Joplin
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.
~ Don Roff
Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.
~ Robert A. Burton
No human being really has any misery. It is your own mistake if you complain of the misery.
~ Dada Bhagwan
He sounded absolutely miserable. "Are you ever going to speak to me?
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.
~ John Milton
Happiness is overrated. It comes and goes just like sadness and miseryboth fleeting. What's important is peace. With all.
~ Hrithik Roshan
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.
~ Diane Ackerman
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
~ Anne Frank
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
~ Lewis Mumford
There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,' she said. 'Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.
~ William Dalrymple
Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Misery loves company. For the sake of your sanity, avoid entertaining her.
~ Andrena Sawyer
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..
~ Winston S. Churchill
When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy.
~ Debasish Mridha
Either enjoy happiness or enjoy misery. The choice is yours.
~ Debasish Mridha
Let us be the wind of love that touches every heart and blows away all of the misery and sadness.
~ Debasish Mridha
No misery ever so beautiful than the one this mind creates.
~ Vivid Darkness
All the stress and misery of life comes from fear of loss. Remember that you can never lose anything without gaining something. To avoid misery, concentrate on what you will gain.
~ Debasish Mridha