Misery Quotes

There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.

Raymond Carver

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

Samuel Beckett

Lucrurile supreme trebuie s? aib? o alt? origine, una proprie lor, - ele nu ar putea lua na?tere din aceast? lume efemer?, în?el?toare, iluzorie ?i mizer?, din aceast? harababur? de am?giri ?i pofte!

Friedrich Nietzsche

When we our betters see bearing our woes,We scarcely think our miseries our foes.

William Shakespeare

The art of our necessities is strangeThat can make vile things precious.

William Shakespeare

When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin.

Stephen King

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Cassandra Clare

Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that horrible potion for nothing. Harry crumpled the parchment in his hand and his eyes burned with tears as behind him Fang began to howl.

J.K. Rowling

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Theodore Dreiser

I have learned now that while those who speak about ones miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

C.S. Lewis

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.

Victor Hugo

(Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths come enforced idleness, sexual boredom, and/or impotence. At the highest pitch, the death of a friend or even the fear of the death of a child.

Christopher Hitchens

Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

George Orwell

Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows

William Shakespeare

But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

Cassandra Clare

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

Samuel Johnson

You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.

Albert Camus

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

Voltaire

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.

Ai Weiwei

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Victor Hugo