(272 quotes found)
“Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.”
Dennis Prager
“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”
Joseph Joubert
“The miserable have no other medicine but hope.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.”
Thornton Wilder
“Every Night and every MornSome to Misery are born.Every Morn and every NightSome are born to Sweet Delight,Some are born to Endless Night.”
William Blake
“There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage”
Mark Twain
“I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains”
Anne Frank
“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.”
Colin Wilson
“Misery is a communicable disease.”
Martha Graham