Misery Quotes - Page 6

• Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Misery And Pain, Decision

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.82, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

  Samuel Johnson

  Mean, Pride, Envy

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.209

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• The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

  Boyle Roche

  Half, Cups, Century

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• 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.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  War, Army, Ideas

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.76, Vanderbilt University Press

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• I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

  Aeschylus

  Silence, Speech, Purifying

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• That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

  Joseph Addison

  Fathers Day, Men, Mean People

  Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.446

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• 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.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Law, Naked, Literature

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Brecht Collected Plays: 2: Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins”, p.189, A&C Black

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• There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

  William James

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Sadness

  Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 1, ch. 4

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• I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a freer aspect,& the laws favor a subdivision of property.

  James Madison

  Government, Law, Class

  "The Writings of James Madison: 1783-1787".

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• While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Mad, Gone

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.171, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  Paul Merton

  School, Past, Years

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• Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Ideas, Atheism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Doe, Infatuation

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker

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• The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Agony, Feelings, Rage

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus”

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• Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.

  Langston Hughes

  Home, Radio, Neighborhood

  Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard (2003). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing”, p.173, University of Missouri Press

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• For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

  Bernard Malamud

  Giving, Blame, Cooks

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.173, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

  Samuel Johnson

  Punishment, Adequate, Vices

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.267

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• 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

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Stupid, Men, Suffering

  Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.40

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• Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

  Euripides

  Depression, Sadness, Adversity

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.20, University of Chicago Press

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• Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated.

  Wayne Dyer

  Peace, Space, Remembrance

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 12, 2010

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• We can never flee the misery that is within us.

  Arthur Golden

  Miserable People, Miserable

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• The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

  Jonathan Swift

  Success, Congratulations, Sadness

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays”, p.436

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• 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, Fall, Sadness

  "Trotzky's Diary in Exile - 1935". Book by Leon Trotsky, 1958.

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• Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Motivational, Strength, Giving Up

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

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• It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

  William Hazlitt

  Grief, Sadness, Taste

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