Quotes About Misery

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. Is there need for lengthy explanation?

My life's misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor.

A man's ego can drive him either to heights of glory or to depths of misery!

He who is happy in his hut is better than he who is miserable in his palace.

Dear little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

I was on the field praising quarterback Dan Fouts during a ceremony to retire his number. Boos began shaking the stadium. It was a moment of misery like I'd never experienced before. Afterward, dejection hung over me for days.

In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Well, I cannot find, and have never found, any way of comforting such people, except to express great sorrow at their trouble, which, when I see them so miserable, I really do feel. It is useless to argue with them, for they brood over their woes and make up their minds that they are suffering for God's sake, and thus never really understand that it is all due to their own imperfection. And

The triumph of the doctrine of the sovereignty of sentiment over sense would have delighted the Romantics, no doubt, but it has promoted an unconscionable amount of misery.

the primrose path to earthly perdition.

For our God is omnipotent, that is to say, almighty, plenteous in power, abundant, omnisufficient, full of all good, needy of nothing. The gods of the gentiles are of no power, puissance, and strength, full of all imbecility, weakness, and misery.

God loves us toughly enough not to allow us to be happy with our sins. The recollection of sin rightly brings misery of conscience. How else could moral awareness be saved from sentimentality? The deepest human happiness, we learn, is grounded in holiness - God's holy love and our responsive attempts to reflect it fittingly.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Always moreover where the Millions are wretched, there are the Thousands straitened, unhappy; only the Units can flourish; or say rather, be ruined the last.