Misery Quotes - Page 23

• Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

  Steve Almond

  Soul, Jukebox, Idiot

  Steve Almond (2010). “Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us”, p.6, Random House

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• The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Rocks, Warning, Vices

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• So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master - so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil - so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beautiful, Heart, Law

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.

  St. Jerome

  Strong, Sadness, Voice

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• Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Sadness, Men, Half

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• Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Strong, Sadness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.152

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• The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.

  William Cowper

  Sadness, Land, Sorrow

  William Cowper (1835). “The Poems of William Cowper ...”, p.386

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• If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

  Luther Burbank

  Everyday, Each Day, Life Is

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• The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Men, Envy

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• Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.

  Barbara

  Courage, Pain, Broken

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• We have found ways... to torture and maim animals and make their lives a misery, almost a living hell... in the multinational food industry... and in laboratories where often the most important thing being researched is the latest in lipstick or face cream.

  David Oderberg

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Important

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• Candidates have been telling you that if elected they would 'pull you from this bog hole of financial misery.' Now is a good chance to get even with 'em, by electing 'em, just to prove what a liar they are.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Liars, Ems

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.

  Saint Basil

  Humanity, Would Be, Needs

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• Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do. There is an old expression that says, 'Misery likes company,' and people who are suffering in hell don't want to be all alone.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Communication, Feel Better

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• We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation from suffering and toward peace and compassion, or in the direction of affliction and misery. What is it that we really want deep in our heart? Is it money, fame, power? Or is it finding inner peace, being able to live life fully and enjoy the present moment?

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Live Life, Heart

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• Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to life. It only brings misery, anxiety, torture, and tension, because whenever you do anything halfheartedly you are dividing yourself into two parts, and that is one of the greatest calamities that has happened to human beings - they are all split.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Heart, Two

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• What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Long, People, Childhood

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.

  Richard Barnfield

  Friendship, Wind, Faithful

  Richard Barnfield, “An Ode”

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• I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative switftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry. Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.

  Bernard Herrmann

  Inspirational, Music, Character

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• Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them and don’t see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without conscience. You just don’t have the capacity for something as honorable as loving another person.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Pain, Lying, People

  Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Space Between”, p.245, Penguin

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• There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.

  John Currin

  Art, Saying Yes, Art Is

  "Lifting the Veil". www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2008.

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• The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or by accident. They grasped their tortured limbs, their tiny burning legs until they were no longer able to stand or run. And then they would crash to the ground where they would writhe in the bubbling tar until death released them from their physical misery.

  Martin Caidin

  Running, Parent, Sound

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• Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Soul, Rest Of Your Life, Palaces

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult

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• Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Add, Should

  George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

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• Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Evil, Length

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.98, Harper Collins

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