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Misery Quotes (page 14)

There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this. Alice Munro
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair. Muhammad Yunus
Socialism is a philosphy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill
Happiness and misery consist in a progression towards better or worse; it does not matter how high up or low down you are, it depends not on this, but on the direction in which you are tending. Samuel Butler
There are men who work hard, digging for gold: he worked hard, digging for pity. The misery of the world was his mine. Pain everywhere was an occasion for goodness always. Victor Hugo
Ivo Andric quote: "In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the..."
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength. Ivo Andric
To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion. Richard Linklater
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me..."
I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Alexander Dumas quote: "There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is..."
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Alexander Dumas
And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if only you put yourself out a bit... And you get carried away, you suffer so much from the things that exist that you ask for what can't ever exist. Now look at me, I was well away dreaming like a fool and seeing visions of a nice friendly life on good terms with everybody, and off I went, up into the clouds. And when you fall back into the mud it hurts a lot. No! None of it was true, none of those... Emile Zola
Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries. Orson Scott Card
God,' she cried, 'what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't tell me the truth because she had never planned it; her life was a continual accident, and how can you prepare for that? Everything we can't bear in the world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.... There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purty's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I... Djuna Barnes
Anne Frank quote: "Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery"
Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery Anne Frank
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own."
...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs. Euripides

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