Quotes on Misery

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

Author: Arthur Adamov

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

Author: Aeschylus

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

Author: Matthew Arnold

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.

Author: Ahmed Bella

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

Author: Ambrose Bierce

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

Author: William Cobbett

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

Author: Euripides

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Author: Federico Fellini

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Author: Arthur Golden

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

Author: Thomas Gray

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

Author: Michael Harrington

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

Author: Karl Hartmann

Misery is a match that never goes out.

Author: Thomas Huxley

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Author: Joseph Joubert

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

Author: Thomas Otway

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

Author: Gordon Parks

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

Author: Dennis Prager

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

Author: Jean Racine

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

Author: Juan Rulfo

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

Author: Brooke Shields

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

Author: Anthony Trollope