Quotes
Quotes about Misery
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Meagre were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
This, this is misery! the last, the worst
That man can feel.
Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me,
For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.
For fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are misery and man!
In misery's darkest cavern known,
His useful care was ever nigh
Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan,
And lonely want retir'd to die.
Cold on Canadian hills or Minden's plain,
Perhaps that parent mourned her soldier slain;
Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew,
The big drops mingling with the milk he drew
Gave the sad presage of his future years,--
The child of misery, baptized in tears.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
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!
There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
A still small voice spake unto me,
"Thou art so full of misery,
Were it not better not to be?"
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body,--but we can not die,
Though we be sick and tired and faint and worn,--
Lo, all things can be borne!
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
No greater grief than to remember days
Of joy when misery is at hand.
Few lives record large triumphs. Most are memorable for misery
Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall a time of happiness in misery.
