Misery Quotes

• Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

  

  William Cobbett
  • World
  • Men
  • Quality

• Have faith to keep all the commandments of God, knowing that they are given to bless His children and bring them joy. You will encounter people who pick which commandments they will keep and ignore others that they choose to break. I call this the cafeteria approach to obedience. This practice of picking and choosing will not work. It will lead to misery. To prepare to meet God, one keeps all of His commandments. It takes faith to obey them, and keeping His commandments will strengthen that faith.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • People
  • Children
  • Joy

• I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Happiness
  • Married
  • Misery

• No longer is it possible for men to be content to have, while their brothers have not. The physical misery of the world's disinherited is becoming the spiritual misery of the world's elect. Superior privileges of any sort now carry with them the sense of shame.

  

  George Davis Herron
  • Shame
  • Misery
  • Privileges

• Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Fire
  • Gold
  • Brave

• Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Mankind

• Isn't it a mercy that we never get cured of being expectant? It makes life so bearable. However regularly we are disappointed and nothing whatever happens, after the first blow has fallen, after the first catch of the breath, the first gulp of misery, we turn our eyes with all their old eagerness to a point a little further along the road.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Road
  • Mercy
  • Breath

• We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbott, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.

  

  William of Malmesbury
  • England
  • Outsiders
  • Prophecy

• Cowardly thoughts, anxious hesitation, Womanish timidity, timorous complaints Won’t keep misery away from you And will not set you free.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Free
  • Thoughts
  • Hesitation

• A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Revolution
  • Misery
  • Masses

• Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Happiness

• You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery!

  

  Sara Shepard
  • Hope
  • Misery

• I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist and to avoid indulging in my misery, or to come off as an exhibitionist. I don't want to make the listener complicit in my vulnerable prose poem of depression, I just want to honor the experience. I'm not the victim here, and I'm not seeking other peoples' sympathy. I don't blame my parents, they did the best they could.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Artist
  • Honor
  • Parent

• The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Women
  • Husband
  • Lover

• What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? Suspend your disbelief? Take a leap of faith? After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack?

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Writing
  • inspirational
  • Misery

• I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Enough
  • Behavior
  • Misery

• Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Evil
  • Belief
  • Misery

• Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

  

  Joseph Joubert
  • Thinking
  • Result
  • Misery

• Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Children
  • Blessing
  • Misery

• If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Misery
  • Revolt

• There is no greater misery than false joys.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Misery
  • Joys

• A church that is deeply aware of it's misery and nakedness before a holy God will cling tenaciously to an all sufficient Savior, while one that is self-confident and relatively unaware of its inherent sinfulness will reach for religion and morality whenever it seems convenient

  

  Michael Horton
  • Church
  • Morality
  • Savior

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