Misery Quotes - Page 11

• One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold a long time, to behold the junipers, shagged with ice, the spruces, rough in the distant glitter of the January sun, and not to think of any misery in the sound of the wind, in the sound of a few leaves, which is the sound of the land, full of the same wind, blowing in the same bare place for the listener, who listens in the snow, and, nothing herself, beholds nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is.

  Wallace Stevens

  Time, Winter, Thinking

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.89, Vintage

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• It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

  Tom Perrotta

  Race, Humans, Has Beens

  "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.

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• Misery, in cold truth, is a weight less upon those who undergo it than upon the minds of those who see it; for he who is cold and starving is so busy in his efforts to obtain warmth and food that he has little time for self-pity, and endures his unhappy condition better than those who take it upon themselves to suffer for him.

  Kenneth Roberts

  Self, Effort, Mind

  Kenneth Roberts (1940). “Oliver Wiswell”

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• Our work is the embodiment of our will. The spiritual manifestation of this work is its effect. When such work is properly done it brings happiness, and when carried out incorrectly it assuredly brings misery. Humanity! Your will is paramount! You can command Nature if you but obey her!

  Viktor Schauberger

  Spiritual, Humanity, Done

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “Nature as Teacher – New Principles in the Working of Nature: Volume 2 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.23, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.

  Sarada Devi

  Ordinary, God Love, Results

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• This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Fascination, Population, Medical

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Lying, Humanity, Suffering

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.22, Library of America

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• For they told you life is hard
  Misery from the start,
  It's dull, it's slow, it's painful
  But I tell you life is sweet
  In spite of the misery
  There's so much more, be grateful
  So, who will you believe
  Who will you listen to
  Who will it be
  'Cause it's high time that you decide
  It's time to make up your own
  Your own state of mind
  Oh they told you life is long
  Be thankful when it's done
  Don't ask for more, be grateful
  But I tell you life is short
  Be thankful because
  Before you know it
  It will be over
  'Cause life is sweet, life is also very short

  Natalie Merchant

  Song, Sweet, Believe

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• In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Dream, Acceptance, Men

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• I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a purification by fire and steel that will, in good time, and by God's decree, work out her own independence.

  Belle Boyd

  War, Believe, Fire

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

  Jentezen Franklin

  Fasting, Drowning, Walk By Faith

  Jentezen Franklin (2011). “Fasting”, p.125, Charisma Media

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• 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.

  Prince

  Answers, Causes, Tricks

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• Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice

  Maryam Jameelah

  Struggle, Adversity, Sacrifice

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• The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

  Simon Bolivar

  Names, America, Liberty

  Simon Bolivar's statement (1829) as quoted in John Gerassi "The Great Fear: The Reconquest of Latin America by Latin Americans", 1963.

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• As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Powerful, Past, Giving

  "De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book 5, Section 15), 44 BC.

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• The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body, he is miserable. In the senses both his misery and his happiness begin and end.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Animal, Men, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.38, Advaita Ashrama

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• Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Life, Evil, Sorrow

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.27

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• Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Taken, Law, People

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• I can't get divorced because I'm a Catholic. Catholics don't get divorced. They stay together through anger and hatred and festering misery, just like God intended.

  Lenny Clarke

  Funny, Divorce, Hatred

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• Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?

  Beth Moore

  Insecurity, Needs, Lines

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.27, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]

  Izaak Walton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Blessing

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• If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.

  Solon

  Gratitude, Home, Men

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• He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Animal, Men, Vanity

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• I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian religion has brought far more misery crime and suffering far more tyranny and evil than any other.

  Eliza Lynn Linton

  Christian, Thinking, Light

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• Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Holy Prophet, Roots, World

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