Top 100 Quotes About Miseries
#1. What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
John Le Carre
#2. There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.
John Armstrong
#3. Yet at least we can admire the wise Prearrangement which has ordained that, as they have no hopes, so they shall have no memory to recall, and no forethought to anticipate, the miseries and humiliations which are at once a necessity of their existence and the basis of the constitution of Flatland.
Edwin A. Abbott
#4. The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others.
Azar Nafisi
#5. The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.
Thomas Paine
#6. Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.
James Joyce
#7. He bemoans our miseries with the tender pity of a Cowper, who, in warning us of life's grovelling pursuits and empty joys, seeks, by withdrawing us from their delusive dominion, to prepare us for "another and a better world." No.
Samuel Johnson
#8. Government is necessary to defend communities from miseries from within themselves; from the prevalence of intestine discord, mutual injustice and violence; the members of the society continually making a prey one of another, without any defence one from another.
Jonathan Edwards
#9. Over the years I had grown attached to it, as men grow attached to their miseries and their burdens.
Alice Hoffman
#10. The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. This of all miseries is the coldest.
Victor Hugo
#11. As she walks through her problems, miseries and bad days, she couldn't help but notice how her gait has become more poised and elegant. Earlier - she tripped over at the sight of a problem. Now - she keeps her head high and wins over them.
Her problems made a woman out of a girl!
Saru Singhal
#12. So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries,
She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
John Keats
#13. I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.
Shelby Lynne
#14. Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.
Alexandre Dumas
#15. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.
-Suyuan
Amy Tan
#16. Ah! dearest love, sweet home of all my fears,
and hopes, and joys, and panting miseries,
Tonight if I may guess, thy beauty wears a smile of such delight,
As brilliant and as bright
As when with ravished, aching, nassal eyes,
Lost in a soft amaze
I gaze, I gaze
John Keats
#17. The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#18. Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.
Philip Sidney
#19. I think the Duke of Buckingham is the cause of all our miseries, and till the King be informed thereof, we shall never go out with honor, or sit with honor here. That man is the grievance of grievances. Let us set down the causes of all our disasters and they will all reflect upon him.
Edward Coke
#20. Let miseries come in millions of rivers and happiness in hundreds! I am no slave to misery! I am no slave to happiness!
Swami Vivekananda
#21. Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Thomas Carlyle
#22. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston S. Churchill
#23. There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Sophocles
#24. The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
Thomas Carlyle
#25. Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
William Samuel Johnson
#26. If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#27. For as long as space remains,
For as long as sentient beings remain,
Until then may I too remain
To dispel the miseries of the world.
Acharya Shantideva
#28. All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal
#29. Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused by ourselves, and none else in the universe is to blame. God is the least to blame for it.
Swami Vivekananda
#30. Is there life before death? That's chalked up
In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain,
Coherent miseries, a bite and a sup,
We hug our little destiny again.
Seamus Heaney
#31. But stranger than that was the feeling he had, that everything had been worth it, that all his miseries were going to end, that he was going to a life that would be as good as, perhaps better than, anything he had read about in books.
Hanya Yanagihara
#32. I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin
#33. As long as there is worldly life, one is going to attain physical body, and as long as there is a body, there will be worldly miseries and troubles.
Dada Bhagwan
#34. Don't stay with Urdanetea, he told him. And don't go with your family to the United States. It's omnipotent and terrible, and its tale of liberty will end in a plague of miseries for us all.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#35. Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events; but when it comes to how we experienced them at the time, memory feels no obligation to truth.
Milan Kundera
#36. 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
#37. That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
J.C. Ryle
#38. Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.
Tom Shales
#39. Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
Rudyard Kipling
#40. There is no greater stupidity than for people ... to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.
Karl Marx
#41. ...A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of a particular group, but which in reality is for the advancement of humanism...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#42. Misery will not come to the one who does not deceive his own Self. Miseries arise because one deceives one's own Self.
Dada Bhagwan
#43. The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked.
Thomas Hartwell Horne
#44. One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
Lorraine Hansberry
#45. Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes and troubles, and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
Bram Stoker
#46. To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
#47. All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Noah Webster
#49. Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail
To find some reason why the poor deserve
Their miseries.
Robert Southey
#50. Love has power in it. At the end, it wins over all miseries.
Debasish Mridha
#51. There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Theophile Gautier
#52. If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries
and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."
Mark Twain
#53. No one can usurp the heights ...
But those to whom the miseries of the world
Are misery, and will not let them rest.
John Keats
#54. I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
C.S. Lewis
#55. Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
Toni Cade Bambara
#56. The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#57. When we pour out our miseries, He hears a melody of us needing and desiring what only He can give.
Stacey Thacker
#58. A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.
Robert E.Lee
#59. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
Swami Vivekananda
#61. Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view
Mahatma Gandhi
#62. Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Jefferson
#63. The brain is the man; its health is essential for normal living; its disorders are surely the most profound of human miseries; and its destruction annihilates a person humanly, however intact his body.
H. Chandler Elliott
#64. As long as space endures, as long as sentient beings remain, until then, may I too remain and dispel the miseries of the world.
Dalai Lama XIV
#65. The New Coach. Did she look at us that first week and see past the glossed hair and shiny legs, our glittered brow bones and girl bravado? See past all that to everything beneath, all our miseries, the way we all hated ourselves but much more everyone else?
Megan Abbott
#66. It'd felt good to be part of an "us," with the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same miseries.
Jennifer Brown
#67. Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus
#68. Complaining about life's little miseries was one of the few conversational luxuries people were allowed, and at the moment, Kaylin couldn't put herself behind complaint.
Michelle Sagara
#69. Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
Blaise Pascal
#70. The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
Blaise Pascal
#71. Learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.
Mary Shelley
#72. The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
Erica Jong
#74. One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
Samuel Johnson
#75. No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty - to the poor. It is hell upon earth to a sensitive man; and many a brave gentleman who would have faced the labors of Hercules has had his heart broken by its petty miseries.
Jerome K. Jerome
#76. We often learn to see the beauties when we are burning by miseries.
Debasish Mridha
#77. I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
Jane Birkin
#78. It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.
Daisaku Ikeda
#79. Joy come and go like pleasant breeze. It's the miseries that stick in you like thorns - until you realize that it's all your doing.
Sadghuru
#80. All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal
#81. Without love and kindness life is cold, selfish and uninteresting and leads to distaste for everything. With kindness, the difficult becomes easy, the obscure clear; life assumes a charm and it's miseries are softened. If we knew the power of kindness. we should transform the world into a paradise.
Charles Wagner
#82. You can create sense out of nonsense, something out of nothing. You can create wealth out of dearth, viable ventures out of turbulent adventures. You can create mercies out of miseries. You can create tomorrow's peace out of today's crisis.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#83. Always move towards the light even if you stumble on your path cause it casts a shadow on the miseries of our past.
Andy Flynn
#84. Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.
Mason Cooley
#85. The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.
Samuel Johnson
#86. It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.
Izaak Walton
#87. The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.
Herbert Spencer
#88. I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
Walter Savage Landor
#89. Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.
Thomas Brooks
#90. The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
Seneca The Younger
#91. Most of the miseries of the world were caused by wars. And, when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were about.
John Limon
#92. Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.
Swami Vivekananda
#93. All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
#94. Today's miseries could be tomorrow's loveful memories.
Debasish Mridha
#95. In order to live to the fullest one needs to let go of the past, needs to see beyond the miseries of life, needs to appreciate life
Me
#96. I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite, insupportable. They are part of the human condition.
Ian Fleming
#97. A person who faces unique miseries learns much. All time transports him rich insights.
Darmie Orem
#98. Smile all the while. Don't let miseries pile, for life is just a mile.-RVM
R.v.m.
#99. We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.
Alvin Toffler
#100. Compassion is an ordinary intent that is felt for everywhere in this world and it is the intent that, 'the whole world is trapped in worldly miseries; how can their miseries be alleviated?
Dada Bhagwan
