Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
~By Franz Liszt ~
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
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.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
~By James A. Garfield ~
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.
~By Amy Tan ~
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
~By Noel Gallagher ~
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
~By Rene Magritte ~
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
~By Montgomery Clift ~
I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
~By Viggo Mortensen ~
We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
People in misery is what most important in art.
~By Zhang Yimou ~
Never was a miser a brave soul.
~By George Herbert ~
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
~By William Cobbett ~
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
~By Euripides ~
I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.
~By Roy Wood ~
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
~By Karl Marx ~
I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.
~By John Frusciante ~
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
~By Thomas Malthus ~
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
~By Anne Frank ~
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
~By Franz Kafka ~
You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
~By Warren Ellis ~
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
~By William Glasser ~
If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.
~By Mia Maestro ~
We can never flee the misery that is within us.
~By Arthur Golden ~
I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
~By Matt LeBlanc ~
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
~By William Samuel Johnson ~
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.
~By Emily Mortimer ~
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
~By Zhang Yimou ~
The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably.
~By James Laughlin ~
Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
~By Thomas Traherne ~
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
~By Anne Frank ~
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.
~By Lydia Lunch ~
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
~By Nigella Lawson ~
I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.
~By Ezra Cornell ~
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
~By Elizabeth Hardwick ~
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
~By Robertson Davies ~
The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.
~By Matthew Perry ~
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.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
~By Gifford Pinchot ~
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
~By Agatha Christie ~
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.
~By John Calvin ~
I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.
~By Lara Flynn Boyle ~
It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.
~By Christine Keeler ~
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
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.
~By Noah Webster ~
You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.
~By Gordon Parks ~
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.
~By Susanna Hoffs ~
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.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
~By Woody Allen ~
If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.
~By Brian Moore ~
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
~By Richard Hooker ~
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
~By James Boswell ~
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
~By Louis Mumford ~
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
~By Federico Fellini ~
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.
~By Joseph Butler ~
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
~By Helen Gurley Brown ~
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
~By Josh Billings ~
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
~By Jane Austen ~
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
~By Joseph Addison ~
It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
~By Luigi Pirandello ~
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
~By Edvard Munch ~
One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.
~By June Carter Cash ~
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
~By Billy Sunday ~
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
~By Russell Baker ~
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