Misery Quotes

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

People in misery is what most important in art.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a perpetual misery there.

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Misery is a communicable disease.

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

Want is misery.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.