Misery Quotes

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill

Failure, Ignorance, Envy

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington

Happy, May, Find

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine

Love, Men, Help

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis

Live, Thinking, Living

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Easy, Office

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt

Human, Rather, Act

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.
Anne Frank

Good, Death, Heart

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life, Happiness, Decision

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Henry David Thoreau

Enough, Company, Loves

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.
Albert Camus

History, Everything, Sun

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert Camus

History, Happy, Encounter

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Leon Trotsky

Life, Great, Live

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank

Beauty, Remains

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen

Life, Loneliness, Suffering

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.
Charlie Chaplin

Happiness, Live, Help

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Anne Frank

Peace, Death, Confusion

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin

Nature, Great, Poor

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
Voltaire

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.
Mitt Romney

Work, Home, Today

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Aldous Huxley

Pain, Laughter, Human

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Dante Alighieri

Happiness, Times, Sorrow

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor Hugo

Happiness, Men, Children

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship, Happiness, Joy

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Bertrand Russell

Born, Hopes, Extreme

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce

Happiness, Another, Sensation

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.
Blaise Pascal

Men, Death, Happy

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.
Bertrand Russell

Long, Madness, Mankind

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Ralph Steadman

Hate, Revenge, Evil

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Frederick Douglass

Happiness, Black, Cannot

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.
Albert Schweitzer

End, Thought, Bring

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