Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
~By Duke of Wellington ~
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 ~
Misery loves company.
~By John Ray ~
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
~By Francois Fenelon ~
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 ~
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
~By Matt LeBlanc ~
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 ~
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 ~
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
~By Albert Camus ~
You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.
~By Brooke Shields ~
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 ~
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
~By Jean Racine ~
We can never flee the misery that is within us.
~By Arthur Golden ~
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
~By Michael Harrington ~
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.
~By Joseph Butler ~
Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
~By Beatrice Potter Webb ~
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
~By Red Skelton ~
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 ~
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
~By Ralph Steadman ~
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.
~By Paul Merton ~
I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.
~By Jon Crosby ~
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.
~By Christine Keeler ~
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
~By Addison Mizner ~
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.
~By John Fowles ~
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 ~
The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
~By Boyle Roche ~
He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
~By Thomas Gray ~
Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
~By Arthur Adamov ~
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
~By Nigella Lawson ~
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
~By Martha Washington ~
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. ~
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 ~
My life has run from misery to happiness.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.
~By David D. Burns ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.
~By Wim Wenders ~
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
~By Victor Cousin ~
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 ~
Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
~By Karl Amadeus Hartmann ~
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
~By Euripides ~
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 full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
~By Woody Allen ~
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
~By Louis Mumford ~
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
~By Boethius ~
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
~By Alexander Smith ~
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 ~
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
~By Russell Baker ~
I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.
~By Larry David ~
They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.
~By Stephen Phillips ~
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
~By Josh Billings ~
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
~By Spike Milligan ~
There is winning and there is misery.
~By Bill Parcells ~
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
~By John Ruskin ~
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
~By George Mason ~
I am talking about misery and all of its implications.
~By Juan Rulfo ~
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Misery is a match that never goes out.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
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 ~
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 ~
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
~By Montgomery Clift ~
Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.
~By Matt LeBlanc ~
If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.
~By Brian Moore ~
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 ~
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
~By Philip Larkin ~
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 ~
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
~By Franz Liszt ~
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 ~
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
~By Gates McFadden ~
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
~By William Cobbett ~
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 ~
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
~By Theodore Dreiser ~
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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 ~
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
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 ~
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
~By Aeschylus ~
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 ~
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 ~
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