Top 100 Love Misery Quotes
#1. People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell you at boot camp in the higher worlds.
Frederick Lenz
#2. Friends love misery ... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Erica Jong
#3. Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
Erica Jong
#4. You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.
Napoleon Hill
#5. You are afraid to let anyone in, but you still leave the door open, hoping someone good will shut the door behind him and throw away the keys.
Jenim Dibie
#6. Money is not the cure for misery but changing our perception is.
Debasish Mridha
#7. Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.
Mark Rothko
#8. I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
Nancy Mitford
#9. Misery doesn't only love company. It demands it. For this reason, don't walk away from negative people. RUN!
Ernie J Zelinski
#10. Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery.
Mason Cooley
#12. I am trying to describe these things not to relive them in my present boundless misery, but to sort out the portion of hell and the portion of heaven in that strange, awful, maddening world- nymphet love. (135)
Vladimir Nabokov
#13. Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people's misery. They lie when it suits them and don't see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without conscience. You just don't have the capacity for something as honorable as loving another person.
Brenna Yovanoff
#14. Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#15. I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said ... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.
Neil Gaiman
#16. That is the delusion of which I speak! You wish the joys of true love upon every milkmaid and stable boy in your land, and yet you consign yourself and another to lives of pure misery that you might possess a well-proportioned ballroom.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#17. A closed heart only creates misery and sadness. An open heart creates love and happiness.
G.E.F. Neilson
#18. All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the blue-nosed misery.
Ruth Pitter
#19. I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.
John Fante
#20. He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.
Swami Vivekananda
#21. Anyone called upon to view misery will view criminality differently. All state officials should be required to spend a month serving in a homeless shelter to learn love.
Joseph Roth
#22. Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#23. Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them.
Audrey Hepburn
#24. He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully
Baruch Spinoza
#25. Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.
William Hazlitt
#26. The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.
Steven Pressfield
#27. Oh, sweet Jesus, English, I'm in love with you! Isn't that reason enough to marry me and put me out of my misery? - Rafael pg 451
Shirlee Busbee
#28. It would hardly be kindness if he didn't punish sin, not to use every means to put the evil thing far from us. Whatever may be meant by the place of misery Mr. Sutherland, it's only another form of his love. Love shining through the fogs of evil, and thus made to look very different.
George MacDonald
#29. Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#30. Ours is a love that won't be dispelled simply by ignoring it. It can't be concealed by separation. The heart knows no distance, only misery. It will never let me forget her, and I'm a fool if I think I can.
K.J. Bell
#31. Love has power in it. At the end, it wins over all miseries.
Debasish Mridha
#32. When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
Cyril Connolly
#33. Dare to feel the joy of life even in the midst of misery.
Debasish Mridha
#34. It'd felt good to be part of an "us," with the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same miseries.
Jennifer Brown
#35. As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.
Tabitha Suzuma
#36. Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. Let us talk about our love, joy and happiness. Let us forgive and forget talking about misery and sadness.
Debasish Mridha
#38. We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark places in our hearts.
Eilis Flynn
#39. After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love
I have found you.
Charlotte Bronte
#40. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#41. If they became possessive and demanded exclusive attention, he disappeared completely, filling them with great misery and longing. They realized that bliss comes when love is shared with all.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#42. I admired how perfectly matched they seemed to be, and I started to wonder about my own, personal definition of love. Had it been wrong? Had it been the cause of my misery all these years? Was it possible that I had somehow adopted a skewed version somewhere along the way?
Morgan Parker
#43. Yet i say to you, do not rush to marriage for it is a deep and perfect thing. Test first, that you may be certain you are called to it by love, and not simply by pleasures of the flesh which will consume themselves and leave only ashes and misery
David Weber
#44. Once my cares were far away,
Yes, once my cares were far away,
Now my love has gone from me
And misery is in my heart to stay.
Stephen King
#45. It wasn't supposed to be this way. Griffin asked me to take a chance. On him. On trust. On love. I did, and look where it got me. That my misery is my own damn fault doesn't escape me. It just makes it worse.
Amanda Bouchet
#46. The cliche is that misery loves company. Another is that there is fellowship among thieves. But thieves do not seek the consoling presence of the fellowship of police officers. Sinful misery does not love the company of purity.
R.C. Sproul
#47. What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine
#49. Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.
Charles Bukowski
#50. Three marital bonds exist: Karmic, Dharmic and Cosmic. The first are of pain, misery, hunger, nakedness, disgrace. The second are of success, bliss, love, financial progress, etc. The third are only for the select, pure and holy souls and bring inexhaustible happiness.
Samael Aun Weor
#51. A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.
Shannon L. Alder
#53. If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#54. Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.
Mariah Carey
#55. They don't know I only speak in runaway train stations
and everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.
No one has ever gotten the chance to get too close
because it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night.
Katelin Wagner
#56. Never be the cause of someone's misery; nobody will be the cause of your misery.
Debasish Mridha
#57. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
Annie Proulx
#58. Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation.
Debasish Mridha
#59. There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.
F.B. Meyer
#60. Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Thomas Otway
#61. She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together through violence and tragedy, and had overcome it. They walked different paths and had found a mutual route.
Some things last, she thought. Some ordinary things. Like love.
J.D. Robb
#62. How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!
Mary Shelley
#63. To know that she could not be near God in peace and love without fulfilling certain mental conditions - that he would not have her just as she was now, filled her with an undefined but terribly real misery ...
George MacDonald
#64. We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always been, not to do no harm, but as little as possible; and not to love one another, but as much as you can.
Ken Wilber
#65. And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
Arthur Golden
#66. The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
Jonathan Edwards
#67. Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile.
Mia Asher
#68. He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.
W. Somerset Maugham
#69. You have the power within you to choose a life of love and beauty or choose a life of misery and destruction. What you chose, that you will attract and that you will manifest.
Debasish Mridha
#70. I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is on that you either have never seen or haven't seen in years. Like 'Coming to America' or 'Misery' or 'Moonstruck.'
Morena Baccarin
#71. I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium for all this misery.
Franz Kafka
#72. The miserable love to watch someone else's misery. I had just about cornered the market on miserable. I was worse than miserable, lower than a flattened sloppy joe left behind on a lunchroom tray. I was alone.
Kami Garcia
#73. Only you could be more important than what I wanted ... what I needed. What I want and what I need is to be with you, and I know I'll never be strong enough to leave again.
Stephenie Meyer
#74. It is easy to suffer for a cause or for a mission; this ennobles the heart of the person suffering. But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.
Paulo Coelho
#76. Absolute beauty,
That which contains all the world's majesty and misery
And which is only visible to those who love.
Roberto Bolano
#77. An hour later. the moon reflected its light on the Tigris as well. The sun, the moon, and Fatima. What else could I ask for?
Ahmad Ardalan
#78. ... falling in love is a state of mental misery which has a restricting, impoverishing, and paralyzing effect upon the development of our consciousness.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#79. My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.
Mary Shelley
#80. Remember, pain and misery
are transient and ephemeral
but love has the healing power,
which is eternal.
Debasish Mridha
#81. Your tears proves that you are an emotional human being; love, joy, sadness and misery touches you deeply.
Debasish Mridha
#82. Life is about making mistakes. If you don't take chances, blindfolded and frightened as you are, you're not really living, are you? Heartache makes you stronger. Misery is the stuff of good poetry. You're denying yourself much more than the bad things in life by listening to Zita's fortunes.
Kimberly Karalius
#83. Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.
Timothy Keller
#84. We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.
Jean De La Bruyere
#85. Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery
Judith McNaught
#86. You pile of stones, you waste, you desolation, I'll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I'll change your heart into green grass, and all you love into a sheep. I'll turn you into a bad poet with dreams.
Peter S. Beagle
#87. Nobody wants to be alone in misery. Cara experienced no shame in admitting that need. Not only did she not want to suffer alone, she demanded co-suffering from all who dared love her.
Christa Parravani
#88. If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him
Eldridge Cleaver
#89. Forgive everyone. Forgive every misery and misfortune with love.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing, save in the fixing of the sight and hearing on that which is invisible and soundless.
Mabel Collins
#91. Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again.
Greg Behrendt
#92. It was hope that was the problem. Hoping feelings wouldn't be hurt, hoping love would blossom, that was painful. But committing yourself to misery, that was just a dead feeling. It was pulling the Band-Aid and embracing the pain.
Stephen Emond
#93. Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.
Bryant McGill
#94. If misery were water, he thinks as he climbs into his car and turns the key, I could just drown or let it wash me away entirely.
Dennis Sharpe
#95. His angry expression softens, and then he shoves my shoulder playfully.
"Hey!" I push him back, to which he retaliates until I'm finally smiling.
I love how we can do that
break through the misery to always find each other.
Suzanne Young
#96. Why couldn't my heart have picked him? Life would have been so much easier."
"Because hearts are ornery, sneaky little bastards, designed to cause misery. They want what they want, and they don't give a damn about what would make life easier or harder for the heart's owner." Della snapped.
C.C. Hunter
#97. Ray bent his head toward her, and they smiled at each other, a pair of blissful ghouls in love.
I might have felt sorry for them if the continued existence of their relationship didn't necessitate generating incredible amounts of anguish and misery, which I was apparently next in line to provide.
Jacqueline Carey
#98. maybe experiencing misery with someone is what makes love. And dangerous women happen to wear misery like a glove.
Everett V. Minshall
#99. 'Many waters cannot quench love' was said of divine, not human, love, which the Dean knew was not always tough enough to survive the indifference of misery. That was one of the chief reasons why he struggled to do away with misery.
Elizabeth Goudge
#100. The fate of every love story, he knew very well, is in the rot of togetherness, or in the misery of separation. Lovers often choose the first with the same illusory wisdom that makes people choose to die later than now.
Manu Joseph
