Misery Quotes

The false world is full of illusions and misery.

~ Bryant Mcgill

If you are miserable you grow in misery and if you are joyful you grow in joy.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Magnus rolled onto his back and put his feet up on the arm of the sofa. “What do you care if Alec’s miserable?” “What do I care?” Jace said, so loudly that Chairman Meow rolled off the couch and landed on the floor. “Of course I care about Alec; he’s my best friend, my parabatai. And he’s unhappy. And so are you, by the look of things. Takeout containers everywhere, you haven’t done anything to fix up the place, your cat looks dead—“ “He’s not dead.

~ Cassandra Clare

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

~ L. Frank Baum

You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed for your illiteracy.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Misery can only be quelled but never cured.

~ Nina -

I have learned that trying to control other people’s opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness.

~ Dan Pearce

Misery alternates with euphoria.

~ Patricia Gaffney

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

~ Steve Almond

She gave him a strange maternal grin.For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am introuble here. This woman is not right.

~ Stephen King

When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.

~ Piper Kerman

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

~ William James

If I have become my father, then I shall have my father's blade. Thorn is my dragon, and a thorn he shall be to all enemies. It is only right, then, that I should wield the sword, misery. Misery and Thorn, a fit match. Besides, Zar'roc should have gone to Morzan's eldest son, not his youngest. It is mine by right of birth. A cold pit formed in Eragon's stomach. It can't be. A cruel smile appeared on Murtagh's face. I never told you my mother's name, did I? And you never told my yours. I'll say it now: Selena.

~ Christopher Paolini

I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.

~ Adelbert Von Chamisso

An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

~ Anonymous

The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

She is a compassionate Amazon forming a muse from misery, full of graphic words, she doesn't hide, she speaks, she writes, she uses words that individualise her, she goes deeper and people cannot grasp her, they are frustrated, she is condemned because she is herself, she puts her self in the world and the world misunderstands her because she is uncomfortable.

~ Laura Gentile

The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.

~ Bryant Mcgill

He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had forgotten it, but was miserable about it, notwithstanding. And this misery was the voice of the great Love that had made him and his wife and the baby and Diamond, speaking in his heart, and telling him to be good. For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds. On Mount Sinai, it was thunder; in the cabman's heart it was misery; in the soul of St John it was perfect blessedness.

~ George Macdonald

I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own.

~ Katja Millay

The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

~ Stephen King

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

~ Victor Hugo

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

I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.*Fantine

~ Victor Hugo

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

~ Victor Hugo

What greater evil could you wish a miser than long life?

~ Syrus Publilius

Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care...Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who at lucky! As for the other men, stagnant night is upon them.

~ Victor Hugo

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

~ Douglas Adams

When that bastard calls back, you tell him he’s won this round. I’ll marry him. But I don’t take well to being blackmailed, and tell him I intend to spend the rest of my life making him miserable, got that?

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Hold it right there. The only agreement we ever had was that you intended to make me as miserable as possible, and I intended to courageously make the best of an intolerable situation like valiant Southern women have always done.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

~ Bertrand Russell

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

~ Jürgen Habermas

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

~ Dante Alighieri

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

~ Martha Washington

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

~ Ambrose Bierce

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

~ William Cobbett

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

~ Thomas Malthus

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

~ Edward Gibbon