Quotes about Misery
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. This of all miseries is the coldest.
- Victor Hugo
They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?
- Victor Hugo
Misery, we repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration.
- Victor Hugo
What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. From whom? From misery. From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts.
- Victor Hugo
As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless
- Victor Hugo
Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'.
- Milan Kundera
But war is pain, and hate is woe.
- Herman Melville
Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.
- Herman Melville
Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?
- Beth Moore
The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.
- Harry S. Truman
But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.
- CS Lewis
Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.
- Pope John Paul II