Quotes About Misery

I visited a manufactory in Manchester with my father. I saw that the wretched creatures enslaved to the machines were as repetitive in their movements as machines. They were distinguished only by their unhappiness. The great wealth of the manufactories is not for the workers but for the owners. Humans must live in misery to be the mind of the machines.

Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the backbreaking labor it took to pick the strawberries for my cereal, or the misery of the hog that lived and died so I could enjoy my bacon.

Equality of outcome is a discredited concept, failing on both logical and historical grounds, as anyone knows who has studied the misery of the 20th century.

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

Misery's the river of the world. Everybody row!

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living. Their conversation piece anyway.

Be splendid tonight, be focused, have fun, make theater: That's our way of repudiating the bullies, the killjoys, the busybodies and blowhards. We know the secret of making art, while they only know the minor secret of making mischief. We proceed from joy; they only have their misery. -fax to Charlotte Rep, March 20, 1996

Moominpappa: "Tell us all that's happening out in the world!" Snufkin: "Fuss and misery." - from "Moomin and Family Life" comic strip

STOP SMILING ALREADY THE WORLD IS HORRIBLE GO AWAY.

I believe in every possible manifestation of spiritual strangeness. I believe in all possible escapes. The only thing I cannot endure is reality, whatever it may be. I believe that the writer is defined by the constant necessity of creating a world, to depart from this world. Literature is more concerned with misery than with happiness. Writing is directly related to frustration. It is a reflection of personal desperation. The writer is profoundly disgusted with his reality.

It is easy to suffer for a cause or for a mission; this ennobles the heart of the person suffering. But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.

Those who look on other people's misery with indifference are the most miserable of all.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

People in misery is what most important in art.

I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.

The world was more fun if you could enjoy it with complete abandonment, untouched by the misery of others.

People like to talk about other people's misery; it makes them feel their own life is somehow better when it usually isn't.

I've seen enough in this world to know that two people who can make each other that miserable must love each other a lot.

alcoholics believe they are a breed apart; they are not happy no matter what they have in life, and the only thing that can truly take away their misery is a drink. No matter what they have in life and no matter how happy they ought to be, they will be depressed because of the chemical imbalance caused by the drink.