Misery Quotes
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I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
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Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread in widening circles, through a nation or humanity. Through my vice I intensify the taint of vice throughout the universe. Through my misery I make multitudes sad. On the other hand, every development of my virtue makes me an ampler blessing to my race. Every new truth that I gain makes me a brighter light to humanity.
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I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
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If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.
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Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.
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It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.
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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
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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.
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I like to be myself. Misery loves company.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.
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You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.
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Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'
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Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.
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Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?
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Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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If someone asked for advice on being an actor I'd say "Don't. It's a hard life." And if they walked away I'd be happy to have spared them years of misery.
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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.
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In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."
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I am talking about misery and all of its implications.
