Misery Quotes
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Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.
Sigmund Freud -
Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
Saint Augustine
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To fully appreciate the music, you have to see the misery.
Ian Brennan -
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
William Shakespeare -
Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.
Blaise Pascal -
What else is there for the rich to do, If not to relieve the poor of their misery?
Pancho Villa -
There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.
Vincent Van Gogh -
The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic. Ask the questions that will uplift your spirit and push you along the path of human excellence
Anthony Robbins
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We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
Vincent Van Gogh -
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
Seneca the Younger -
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
Michael Harrington -
The childless escape much misery.
Euripides -
The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
C. S. Lewis
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert Camus -
No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.
Adam Duritz Matt Malley -
If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
Yann Martel -
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?
Sigmund Freud -
My life has run from misery to happiness.
Loretta Lynn
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Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
Lao Tzu -
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Misery makes sport to mock itself.
William Shakespeare -
I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.
Charles Dickens