Misery Quotes

• Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Fire
  • Gold
  • Brave

• There is an inborn tendency to be Free. Every being is struggling to be Free. No one wants bondage. No one wants misery. The very idea of disease and death is appalling to all. Still, a being thinks that it will be happy by sense-pleasures.

  

  Narayanananda Swami
  • Free
  • Being
  • Misery

• 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

• From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Consciousness
  • Misery
  • Marianne

• Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Tears
  • Harmony
  • Misery

• 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.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Boring
  • Misery

• O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Criticism
  • Blame

• 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

• Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

  

  Euripides
  • End
  • Misery
  • Mouths

• 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

• 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

• There is no greater misery than false joys.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Misery
  • Joys

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

  

  Sara Shepard
  • Hope
  • 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  William Cobbett
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Happiness

• 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

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Revolution
  • Misery
  • Masses

• 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

• 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

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