Quotes About Misery

Life is full of misery and hardship, so grab your pleasures where you can.

There is no surer sign of mischief in Africa than these trumpery charges of bewitching houses by placing things on them: some such over-strained accusation is generally set in the front rank when other difficulties are to come: drunkenness is pretty much the same thing in all parts of the world, and gathers misery around it as easily in an African village as in an English city. Had

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.

Obedience allows God's blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty good place to start.

I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.