Quotes
Quotes about Misery
The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery.
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because loveâany loveâ reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold.
Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance, Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd Into some bruitish form of wolf or bear, Or ounce or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were; And they, so perfect in their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement.
But through the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse, 'Tis then delightful misery no more, But agony unmix'd, incessant gall, Corroding every thought, and blasting all Love's paradise.
I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples. Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones; And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.
The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight. [Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria aliorum.]
This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel.
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
The child of misery, baptized in tears!
Misery travels free through the whole world! [Ger., Frei geht das Ungluck durch die ganze Erde!]
Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.]
Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones; And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
No, misery makes sport to mock itself.
All of which misery I saw, part of which I was. [Lat., Quaeque ipse misserrima vidi, et quorum pars magna fui.]
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
Hope is the physician of each misery.
