Quotes of: Miseries Keyword

And when I raised myself to look at the man who’d spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

Memoirs of a Geisha

I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.

My Own Story

A mannequin? An unfeeling heartless bitch who feeds on others' misery and is physically incapable of crying, unless it's tears of blood?

Never Fade

...even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery.

Netherland

...the ravenous monsters men called reporters; sub-human vermin who feed off misery and created it wherever they went.

The Nelson Touch

When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.

Orange Is the New Black

[...] [T]here was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.

Lover Eternal

You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed for your illiteracy.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

Mere Christianity

Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused misery.

Surrender

Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.

Startide Rising

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

Three Men in a Boat

Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this.

The Polysyllabic Spree

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.

Poetics

A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

If you are miserable you grow in misery and if you are joyful you grow in joy.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

Omar Bongo

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

Robertson Davies

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.

Rush Limbaugh

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Samuel Johnson

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

Terry Pratchett