Quotes About Misery

When one assumes that you can substitute license for freedom, when one assumes that you can use another's deficiency for one's own generosity, when one assumes that you can use another person's misery and nightmares in order to clarify your own dreams. When all of those things are done and completed, then the surrender and the betrayal of one's culture is also complete.

Money can't buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery.

Money can't buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery.

Part of misery is self-inflicted. The other part you invite others to inflict upon you.

Nothing ages a person like poverty and misery," Harriett said. "Despite what all the ads claim, it's not skin cream that helps some women keep their glow. The only true youth serum has two ingredients—luck and money.

Nothing ages a person like poverty and misery

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

All the misery of being a fat teenager in America, trying so hard to be invisible, quiet, not to draw attention to myself.

Between the 'death bridge' and our little chat with the Queen of the Damned, I've decided I should carry a gun at all times; whether it's to defend myself or to put myself out of my own misery," Carmen rambled on nervously. "It's a win-win situation, really.

If you make a mistake, you got to make it right. I realized I had a choice. I could sit in my misery or I could do something about it.

And thus they plod in sluggish misery, Rotting from sire to son, and age to age, Proud of their trampled nature, and so die, Bequeathing their hereditary rage To the new race of inborn slaves, who wage War for their chains, and rather than be free, Bleed gladiator-like, and still engage Within the same arena where they see Their fellows fall before, like leaves of the same tree.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

Misery loves company, as someone unbearably trite said once.

The aim of therapy is to convert neurotic suffering into ordinary human misery.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery.

used to feel that I was a victim of the world I saw. When things would go wrong, I would blame the world or those in it for my misery and feel justified in my anger. Today, I know I am not a victim of the world I see, and therefore tend to take responsibility for whatever I perceive and for the emotions I experience.

It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die.

It is a man's proper business to seek happiness and avoid misery.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.

Misfortunes come to all men.