Quotes About Misery

Misery is a communicable disease.

None think the great unhappy but the great.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Within him wrestled invisibly many contrary and irreconcilable feelings, especially the contrast between the greatness that he felt in his soul and the misery and weakness of what he was able to express and reveal before others.

In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.

It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.

there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.

It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.

Art has been for me, when I did not deceive myself, a meager compensation for what I desire. I am bored with these frantic cravings, tired of them and therefore myself, and contemptuous, though tolerant, of all my vast powers of self-pity and self-expressive misery. What am I? What do I seek?

It was the worst hurt he had ever known.

If I'm not working, I like to attend a dancing class. At least that keeps you in condition. Then, if you get a call for a dancing part, you don't have to go through two weeks of misery getting back in shape.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

The Yogi says, religion is practical if you know first why misery exists. All the misery in the world is in the senses. Is

leave upon it different pictures, and the result of these combined impressions is what is called man's "character." If you take the character of any man it really is but the aggregate of tendencies, the sum-total of the bent of his mind; you will find that misery and happiness are equal factors in the formation

There is no disease nor misery for thee, but thou art like the infinite sky; clouds of various colours come over it, play for a moment, then vanish. But the sky is ever the same eternal blue.