Quotes About Misery
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.
~ Oscar Wilde
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There is no Mystery so great as Misery.
~ Oscar Wilde
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Black: So how come they cant be your brothers in despair and selfdestruction? I thought misery loved company? White: I'm sure I don't know. Black: Well let me take a shot at it. White: Be my guest. Black: What I think is that you got better reasons then them. I mean, their reasons is just that they dont like it here, but yours says what they is not to like and why not to like it. You got more intelligent reasons. More elegant reasons.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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My guess is that you can only be so happy. While there seems to be no floor to sorrow. Each deeper misery being a state heretofore unimagined. Each suggestive of worse to come.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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There seems to be a ceiling to well-being. My guess is that you can only be so happy. While there seems to be no floor to sorrow. Each deeper misery being a state heretofore unimagined. Each suggestive of worse to come.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Its general vacuity aside there seems to be a ceiling to well-being. My guess is that you can only be so happy. While there seems to be no floor to sorrow. Each deeper misery being a state heretofore unimagined. Each suggestive of worse to come.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrowing. There is no sorrowing. For sorrow is a thing that is swallowed up in death, and death and dying are the very life of the darkness. JACOB BOEHME
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Its general vacuity aside there seems to be a ceiling to well-being. My guess is that you can only be so happy. While there seems to be no floor to sorrow. Each deeper misery being a state heretofore unimagined. Each suggestive of worse to come. I
~ Cormac McCarthy
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There are no absolutes in human misery, and things can always get worse.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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And she said that since this was so nor could it be altered one was better to follow one's heart in joy and in misery than simply to seek comfort for there was none. To seek it was only to welcome in the misery and to know little else. She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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I'm not sure what the adaptive advantage could be to share an innate and collective misery.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse, only Suttree didnt say so.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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I'm not sure what the adaptive advantage could be to share an innate and collective misery.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Suffering is part of the human condition and must be borne. But misery is a choice.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Suffering is a part of the human condition and must be borne. But misery is a choice.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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There were dumplings on the train, sold by grim men and women with deep lines cut into their faces by years and worry and hunger and misery. This was the provinces, the outer territories, the mysterious China that had sent millions of girls and boys to Canton to earn their fortunes in the Pearl River Delta. Matthew knew all their strange accents, he spoke their strange Mandarin language, but he was Cantonese, and these were not his people. Those were not his dumplings.
~ Cory Doctorow
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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
~ D.H. Lawrence
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In his dark eyes was a deep misery which he wore with the same ease and pleasantness as he wore his close-sitting clothes.
~ D.H. Lawrence
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The crypt underneath the manor was beautiful and in perfect preservation. Paul made a drawing. Miriam stayed with him. She was thinking of Mary Queen of Scots looking with her strained hopeless eyes, that could not understand misery, over the hills where no help came, or sitting in this crypt being told of a God as cold as the place she sat in.
~ D.H. Lawrence
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He looked in humiliation, anger, wariness and misery at Connie. "Ma lass!" he said. "The world's goin' to put salt on thy tail." "Not if we don't let it," she said.
~ D.H. Lawrence
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In short, I conceive that a great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
~ Dale Carnegie
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Misery misery son of a bitch of all miseries.
~ Walker Percy
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To augment their misery, a contagious disorder of a dangerous nature spread through the land; and, rendered more virulent by the uncleanness, the indifferent food, and the wretched lodging of the lower classes, swept off many whose fate the survivors were tempted to envy, as exempting them from the evils which were to come.
~ Walter Scott
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