Misery Quotes

When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.

Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous.

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

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.

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

What else is there for the rich to do, If not to relieve the poor of their misery?

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.

We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery.

You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery.

Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.

Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery.

Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

I saw the abyss of my misery; whatever there is of good in me is Yours, O Lord. But because I am so small and wretched, I have a right to count on Your boundless mercy.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

Misery motivates, not utopia.

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.