Quotes about Misery

He who is most deeply abased and alarmed, by the consciousness of his disgrace, nakedness, want, and misery, has made the greatest progress in the knowledge of himself.

For unless we realize our own helpless misery, we shall never know how much we need the remedy which Christ brings, nor come to him with the fervent love we owe him.

So also Augustine, "The suffering at which you cry, is medicine, not punishment; chastisement, not condemnation. Do not drive away the rod, if you would not be driven away from the inheritance. Know, brethren, that the whole of that misery of the human race, under which the world groans, is a medicinal pain, not a penal sentence

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

There is no greater misery than false joys.

God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.