Top 100 Quotes About Miseries
#1. FEBRUARY IN SALINAS is likely to be damp and cold and full of miseries. The heaviest rains fall then, and if the river is going to rise, it rises then. February of 1915 was a year heavy with water.
John Steinbeck
#2. Friendship was witnessing another's slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person's most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.
Hanya Yanagihara
#3. You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead.
Santosh Kalwar
#4. Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.
Blaise Pascal
#5. Don't be sad by what you see
It's true life has it's miseries
But one thing's always worked for me
Worry ends when faith begins.
Sami Yusuf
#6. He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#7. Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#8. When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace.
Charles Spurgeon
#9. The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Colin Wilson
#10. Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
Oscar Niemeyer
#11. The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats ...
Albert Einstein
#12. There must occur a time in every man's life when the idea of a sudden, irrational death does not frighten him. This shall suffice to cure a lot of his persistent miseries.
Ashfaq Saraf
#13. In short, I conceive that a great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
Benjamin Franklin
#14. It is easier to avoid great matrimonial catastrophes than trivial everyday miseries.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#15. If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the miseries which attend it. And no period of time can be happier or more prosperous, than those in which it is never regarded or heard of.
David Hume
#16. Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.
Blaise Pascal
#17. Do you know why God subjects you to so many miseries? That He may bestow on you the riches of heaven.
Paul Of The Cross
#18. Pride counterbalances all these miseries; man either hides or displays them, and glories in his awareness of them.
Blaise Pascal
#19. I know how to take a man out of his miseries. Give him a swift kick, or else get him drunk and find him a pr- ...
Robert Jordan
#20. Still, it's better to believe that some high purpose guides our steps than to think that nothing matters except our own small miseries and happinesses.
Orson Scott Card
#22. Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
Honore De Balzac
#23. The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.
Herbert Hoover
#24. And yet for that, blood is thicker than water, even if the only thing you've shared with your people have been hardships and miseries.
Maria Duenas
#25. When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
William Shakespeare
#26. That which cures all worldly miseries, is called 'Scientific' Knowledge.
Dada Bhagwan
#27. Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.
Joseph Addison
#28. A disciple: I am worried about human suffering all over the world. What is the solution?Spiritual leader: The solution to our miseries lie within central atom of our being, 'I'. Once this central atom transcends to 'WE', human sufferings can be resolved.
Santosh Kalwar
#29. subscribed to the theory that life consisted of a long string of miseries, tolerated only because the alternative was worse.
Amy Fecteau
#30. In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.
Walter Raleigh
#31. God's favor floats as it were over all this and finds joy in turning all those miseries to the greater profit of those who love Him. From toil He makes patience spring forth.
Francis De Sales
#32. Upon my word, just see how mortal men always put the blame on us gods! We are the source of evil, so they say - when they have only their own madness to think if their miseries are worse than they ought to be.
Homer
#33. Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.
Dalai Lama
#34. But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.
Mary Shelley
#35. She came and took away all his miseries, his sorrows !!
Then SHe
went and left him restlessly numb. He was her
painkiller. SHe, his anesthetic.
Douglas Self
#36. Even if you do nothing, say nothing and be nothing, there will still be many who will criticise you. It is much better to be criticised for success than be condemned for failures because success rids you of the many miseries of life.
Awdhesh Singh
#37. I went to a box room at the top of the house and locked myself in, in order to be alone with my aching miseries.
H.G.Wells
#38. To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Philip Massinger
#39. Miseries are often an option and it depends on perception.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence, or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen.
Robert Emmet
#41. The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.
Matthew Henry
#42. We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.
Amy Tan
#43. I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.
Winston Churchill
#44. My mother always tells me that anyone who gets enjoyment from other people's misery will eventually get the greatest discomfort from his or her own miseries.
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
#45. Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
Thomas Carlyle
#46. My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#47. There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don't have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time.
Craig Stone
#48. You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature and could be negotiated readily. Others had almost no curvature and you knew you'd be spending hours turning the corner. Great whopping-big planet-sized miseries.
Jonathan Franzen
#49. We should all be merely animals. As humans, there are miseries nothing can put us out of.
Paul Russell
#51. We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.
Glen Duncan
#52. Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.
Agnes Repplier
#53. All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.
Blaise Pascal
#54. Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
Sophocles
#55. ...adding to the miseries competing for my attention...
Suzanne Collins
#57. All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.
Blaise Pascal
#58. Were uproariously demanding relief from their intolerable miseries - in this Potemkin sideshow there prevailed a preposterous and mendacious comfort.
Stefan Zweig
#59. We twist our souls around each other's miseries.
Anthony Marra
#60. This will not be a gentle prescription for healing, but cautery and the knife. What shall I achieve? That a soul which has conquered so many miseries will be ashamed to worry about one more wound in a body which already has so many scars.
Seneca.
#61. To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.
Hugh Blair
#62. How we are born to invent our own miseries!
Sophia Lee
#63. Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
Benazir Bhutto
#64. There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now ...
William Shakespeare
#65. If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.
Edward Gibbon
#66. Touch'd with miseries
She seem'd at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
- Lamia (John Keats)
John Keats
#67. Go and preach to all, 'Arise, awake, sleep no more: within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested.
Swami Vivekananda
#68. One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
George Eliot
#69. The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.
Emile M. Cioran
#70. For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
Aldous Huxley
#71. As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.
Jonathan Aitken
#72. The modern State's greatest single instrument of oppression, its murderous tax on drink ... accounts for nearly all the miseries besetting our once-merry land; football hooliganism, colour prejudice, industrial unrest, cynicism about politicians; the list is endless.
Auberon Waugh
#73. History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.
Washington Irving
#74. This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
Walter Raleigh
#75. The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#76. War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.
Thomas Jefferson
#77. Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.
George Bernard Shaw
#78. Pain is inevitable in life but sufferings and miseries are optional.
Debasish Mridha
#79. So many miseries have craz'd my voice,
That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.
William Shakespeare
#80. Those of us who have the luck to enjoy good health forget about this vast parallel universe of the unwell-their daily miseries, their banal ordeals. Only when you cross that frontier into the world of ill-health do you recognize its quiet, massive presence, its brooding permanence.
William Boyd
#81. A miserable person always attracts miseries, but a joyful person seems to find joy in miseries.
Debasish Mridha
#82. 463. - There is often more pride than goodness in our grief for our enemies' miseries; it is to show how superior we are to them, that we bestow on them the sign of our compassion.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#83. Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring
this is one of the harshest human miseries.
Wislawa Szymborska
#84. Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.
Ann Rinaldi
#85. Why is it that married people always say "Come in" when everything they do says "Get out"? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried.
Malcolm Bradbury
#86. How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!
Douglas Harding
#87. It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#88. Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated.
Wayne W. Dyer
#89. There was an order of misery, misery tucked inside miseries, and you were meant to keep track.
Colson Whitehead
#90. Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#91. C. S. Lewis, when he wrote of his wife, We both knew this: I had my miseries, not hers; she had hers, not mine.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#92. Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.
Mahatma Gandhi
#93. People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
Victoria Abril
#94. You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.
Anthony Marra
#95. Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.
Dorothea Dix
#96. Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor.
John Cheever
#97. Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
Carol Bishop Hipps
#99. 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
#100. It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
