Misery Quotes - Page 21

• I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

  Eric Cantona

  Thinking, Seeing

  "Eric Cantona's call for bank protest sparks online campaign" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2010.

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• People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

  Victoria Abril

  People, Television, Shows

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• I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

  Jane Birkin

  Taken, World, Dickens

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• Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  War, Suffering Of Others, Depth

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• The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Pain, Optimism

  Science and the ModernWorld ch. 12 (1925)

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• Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Hinduism, Make You Happy

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• I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

  Grant-Lee Phillips

  Inspiration, Thinking, Easier

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• There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

  Jon Krakauer

  War, Glamorous, Pointless

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• The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

  Erica Jong

  Block, Past, Joy

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 06, 2012

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• I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

  Agatha Christie

  Differences, Comfort, Pillow

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• I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.

  Shelby Lynne

  Choices, Comfortable

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• All the joy the world contains
  Has come through wishing happiness for others.
  All the misery the world contains
  Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.

  Shantideva

  Motivational, Joy, Wish

  Shantideva, Padmakara Translation Group (2008). “The Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.214, Shambhala Publications

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• Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

  Bob Dylan

  Family, Mother, Children

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• Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Dream, Humanity, Needs

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• Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Men, Darkness

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.177, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what it is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery.

  Samuel Beckett

  Looks, Speechless, Holes

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.

  Napoleon Hill

  Successful, Men, Effort

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.

  Nicos Anastasiades

  Grief, Soup Kitchens, Cyprus

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• Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

  Lester Levenson

  Happiness, Spiritual, Sadness

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• The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let go of the reason for it, or move into your real Self. Never let go of - through escape from misery - a good opportunity to grow.

  Lester Levenson

  Letting Go, Real, Moving

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• If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and misery for no reason than his own despicable enjoyment. God exists though, not for all humanity, but for a one chosen man - a philosopher - who is bound to answer the greatest philosophical question, the question about the nature of the questioner's existence, which progressively quenches the divine vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Pain, Philosophical

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• If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Perfection, Seeming

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• Misery doesn't only love company. It demands it. For this reason, don't walk away from negative people. RUN!

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Running, People

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• I was once like you, enlightened and "rational",
  I too scoffed at lovers,
  Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery.
  No one is safe! Watch out.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Drunk

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• Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Evil, Wish

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.342

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