Quotes About Misery

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.

Shoes were invented by the Sith to keep our delicate toes in anguish and misery, I'm sure of it." -Tahiri Veila (Edge of Victory: Conquest)

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions, and unwanted children living in misery. [Norwegian Prime Minister, speech at 1994 UN International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo. Quoted in The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World, Michelle Goldberg 2009, pp. 103-104]

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

I have learned that the Mahabharata is about the way we deceive ourselves, how we are false to others, how we oppress fellow human beings, and how deeply unjust we are in our day-to-day lives. But is this moral blindness an intractable human condition, or can we change it? Some of our misery is the result of the way the state also treats us, and can we redesign our institutions to have a more sympathetic government?

the feeling of cold emptiness, of having nothing to offer, made the journey a misery.

Being abused causes pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, and misery can only break what goodness remains.

Till tree from tree, tree among trees tree over tree become stone to stone, stone between stones, stone under stone for ever. O Loud, hear the wee beseech of thees of each of these thy unlitten ones! Grant sleep in hour's time, O Loud! That they take no chill. That they do ming no merder. That they shall not gomeet madhowiatrees. Loud, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughter low!

and made famous by Janis Joplin. It was one of despair and loss and unrelieved misery, one that maybe only a black woman of Thornton's era could adequately understand. The song was "Ball and Chain.

Many people do not understand that drug and alcohol addiction are joined at the hip with clinical depression and psychoneurotic anxiety. The combination of the two is devastating. An outsider has no comprehension of the misery that a clinically depressed person carries. The pain is like dealing with an infected gland. One touch and the entire system tries to shut down, because the next stop might be the garden of Gethsemane.

the sadness, the suspicion, the weariness, the knowledge that came from living a special misery in a world of misery.

God loves us too much to leave us in the hell of unhappiness that comes from trying to do his job. Into the slavish misery of our ladder-defined lives, God condescends.

Everybody has unhappiness.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life's required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.

I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped ringing true for me, as I saw the misery of people living all around me.

I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.

Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery.

Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.

Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want to change it.

I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Martin and Stephen King - Brexit would mean a combination of 'A Feast for Crows' and 'Misery.'

Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair.