Quotes and Sayings About Misery

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Gains #Misery #Labor

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
-- Addison Mizner

#Doe #Misery #Company

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
-- Aeschylus

#Silence #Speech #Misery

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella

#Past #Poverty #Misery

The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna

#Wheels #Misery #Pleasure

We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.
-- Albert Camus

#Common #Misery #Speak

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Looks #Misery #Compensation

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
-- Alexander Smith

#Happiness #Time #Misery

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
-- Andre Gide

#Sadness #Self Pity #Misery

Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.
-- Ann Landers

#Choices #Misery #Problem

Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery
-- Anne Frank

#Courage #Misery #Have Courage

Put yourself out of your misery.
-- Annie Dillard

#Misery

And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
-- Annie Proulx

#Pain #May #Misery

I like to be myself. Misery loves company
-- Anthony Corallo

#Misery #Mobster #Company

You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.
-- Anthony Marra

#Soul #Twists #Misery

We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.
-- Anthony Marra

#Soul #Twists #Misery

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Grief #Despair #Misery

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
-- Aristotle

#Action #Misery #Form

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
-- Arthur Adamov

#Long #Want #Misery

I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
-- Arthur Golden

#Sad #Trying #Misery

We can never flee the misery that is within us.
-- Arthur Golden

#Misery

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.
-- Ayrton Senna

#Islands #Sea #Misery

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
-- Barbara Johnson

#Pain #Misery #Inevitable

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Voice #Departure #Misery

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Gratitude #Priorities #Misery

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
-- Bernard Malamud

#Giving #Misery #Blame

There is no greater misery than false joys.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Joy #Misery

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

#Hope #Misery #Born

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Misery #Distraction

The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Sadness #Ruins #Misery