Misery Quotes

"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death."
-Anne Frank

"Misery is almost always the result of thinking."
-Joseph Joubert

"Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform."
-Matt Leblanc

"Misery is when you make your bed and then your mother tells you it's the day she's changing the sheets."
-Suzanne Heller

"I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains."
-Anne Frank

"Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice."
-Victor Cousin

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."
-William Shakespeare

"If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."
-Charles Darwin

"Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly."
-Leonardo da Vinci

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

"I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age."
-William Cobbett

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."
-Woody Allen

"It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery."
-Publilius Syrus

"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."
-Bertrand Russell

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

"In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry."
-Jane Austen

"There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind."
-Joseph Conrad

"We need to be ruthless, finish it off and put them out of their misery. If we play to the standards we set I'm confident we can."
-Dave Nosworthy

"A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer."
-Joseph Addison

"Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy."
-Montgomery Clift

"The traditional misery index is worse right now than it was in 2001."
-Jason Furman

"[Disaster coverage] feeds a demographic of grief junkies, who are tapping away at the remote control like a rat tapping for crack pellets, ... Not only does misery love company, it also makes for compelling television."
-Matthew Felling

"Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed."
-Duff Green

"The Katrina disaster happened to almost everybody in this newsroom. We're dealing with our own misery as well as trying to tell this story."
-Jim Butler

"Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery."
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice."
-William Glasser

"Oh, my God! It's like a travesty of justice. He is basically profiting off the misery of working people. That's what it comes down to."
-Bhairavi Desai

"I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society."
-Matt Leblanc