Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life’s required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Martin and Stephen King – Brexit would mean a combination of ‘A Feast for Crows’ and ‘Misery.’
In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can’t afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can’t allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
Misery loves company. There’s a lot to that.
If everybody lives in the same way, there’s something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can’t have what somebody else does.
I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
A manufacturing nation is, in every sense of the word, dependent on others. Look to England! Cut off from the markets of the world, misery and ruin await her.
There’s always a fundamental misery that’s with me that I always relate to some bit of loss or something. I don’t know what it is about me, but even though I’m happy on the surface, there’s something there, I guess. So, it all comes from wherever it comes from. I really don’t know where that is.
For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed, sagging in the middle, red hair sticking out of the mattress, the spring gone and the fleas leaping all over the place.
My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I’m not interested in being unhappy.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.
Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.
The day that I ever become hip… please shoot me and put me outta my misery!
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
If Satan can weaken or destroy the loving relationships among members of families, he can cause more misery and more unhappiness for more people than he could in any other way.
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I’m not terribly method.
People will come up, and they’ll talk about ‘Misery.’ But a lot of people will talk about ‘Waterboy.’
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
When I first went to interview for ‘Misery,’ they were saying things like, ‘You’re not Michelle Pfeiffer, you know.’ And I just don’t get the relevance of that remark. I’m not Elizabeth Taylor, either. I’m not Sean Connery.
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming – a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
I think art doesn’t have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.
It’s a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
I’m here to be lovesick, broke and drifting, writing heartache songs and singing about pain and misery and depression, with a few good times here and there.
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up – not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the backbreaking labor it took to pick the strawberries for my cereal, or the misery of the hog that lived and died so I could enjoy my bacon.
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
People in misery is what most important in art.
I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal joy to which may it please our Saviour to bring us all.
Misery is a communicable disease.
I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.
To do art, one thing should always remember – subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
I wasn’t present for my own life for a long time. I wasn’t there; I wasn’t in my relationships; I wasn’t in my band; I wasn’t in my soul – I was disconnected from all of it. I would let myself live in a miserable situation forever, mostly of my own making. I made my own misery and made the people around me miserable.
Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.
A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.
Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I’m not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you’re in the throes of one, it’s hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
