Misery Quotes
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If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.
Simon Hoggart
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Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.
Carrie Vaughn
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There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
David H. Levy
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It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. Unlike those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this new bomb not only destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery on those who live there, but also transforms its target into just another piece in the puzzle of economic globalization.
Subcomandante Marcos
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You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.
Napoleon Hill
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I like to be myself. Misery loves company.
Anthony Corallo
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The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This is because it also does not contain perfect sadness nor misery nor death. What lies in waiting is a paradise for wolves alone, the unclean humans are no more...come with me Cheza, it is time.
Keiko Nobumoto
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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
William Shakespeare
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Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.
Arthur Lynch
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Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
Cato the Younger
