Quotes about Misery

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

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.

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.

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.

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

If the children of Israel had heeded the Deuteronomic warnings, there would have been more milk and honey, and less misery and injustice, when they eventually crossed the Jordan.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

Hell has no benefits, only torture.

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.