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.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
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 ~
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
~By Albert Camus ~
Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
~By Larry King ~
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
~By Martha Washington ~
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
~By Francis Picabia ~
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
~By Patrick White ~
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
~By Francis Bacon ~
For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN.
~By Connie Chung ~
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 ~
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.
~By George Grosz ~
Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
~By Duke of Wellington ~
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
~By Philip Massinger ~
Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.
~By Georges Duhamel ~
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
~By Franz Liszt ~
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
~By Helen Gurley Brown ~
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
~By Karl Kraus ~
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 ~
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
~By Jean Racine ~
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
~By Lord Byron ~
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 ~
Misery loves company.
~By John Ray ~
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.
~By Lynn Johnston ~
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
~By Martha Washington ~
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
~By Samuel Daniel ~
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
~By Russell Baker ~
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 ~
Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
~By Fiona Shaw ~
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
~By John Dryden ~
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
~By Beth Henley ~
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
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 ~
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.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
~By Clifton Paul Fadiman ~
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
There is winning and there is misery.
~By Bill Parcells ~
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
~By Thomas Otway ~
During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.
~By Davy Jones ~
We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
~By Joseph Butler ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
~By Richard Hooker ~
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
~By Claudius ~
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
~By Herodotus ~
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 ~
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. ~
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
~By John Milton ~
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
~By Montgomery Clift ~
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
~By Margaret Drabble ~
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
~By James Hillman ~
A man 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 ~
The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.
~By Joseph Butler ~
Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.
~By Matt LeBlanc ~
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.
~By John Cleveland ~
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
~By Voltaire ~
Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.
~By Phillip Adams ~
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
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 ~
I love what I do. When a month goes by and I'm not working, I'm miserable.
~By Roselyn Sanchez ~
I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.
~By Sarah Polley ~
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
~By Adam Smith ~
If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
~By Woody Allen ~
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
~By Nagarjuna ~
Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.
~By Paul Simon ~
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
~By Louis Mumford ~
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 ~
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?
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.
~By Ryan Phillippe ~
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 ~
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.
~By Fay Wray ~
You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
~By Naomi Watts ~
Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time.
~By Richard H. Davis ~
I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
~By Shania Twain ~
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
~By Marvin Gaye ~
As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.
~By Jean-Bertrand Aristide ~
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 ~
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
~By Noel Gallagher ~
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
~By Tacitus ~
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
~By Ralph Steadman ~
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
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.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
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.
~By Allen Toussaint ~
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
~By Euripides ~
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
~By Dennis Prager ~
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
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