Misery Quotes

August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.

Henry Rollins Black Flag
- School
- August
- Heat
Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.

Georg Ebers
- Friend
- Happiness
- Refuses

I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is on that you either have never seen or haven't seen in years. Like "Coming to America" (1988) or "Misery" (1990) or "Moonstruck" (1987).

Morena Baccarin
- America
- Coming
- Havens
I lived long enough in a society where freedom of speech was nonexistent, and I know what kind of misery that creates - starting with the fact that life becomes very boring for people who just try to survive, and are quiet, and try not to buck the system. And, of course, it can be devastating for people who try to speak against it.

Milos Forman
- Freedom
- Speak
- Boring
I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralisation, degradation, rank ignorance, overwhelming misfortune and utter penury in order to produce one rich man.

Almeida Garrett
- Rich
- Produce
- Calculated
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
- Politics
- Slave
- Fit
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Victor Hugo
- Humanity
- Misery
It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.

Silius Italicus
- Gods
- Approach
- Altar