Quotes of: Misery Keyword

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal with all kinds of squalid misery and hideous and unspeakable in...

Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

[Pommeroy is reading to the class from the 1954 short story "The Destructors" by Graham Greene] Karen Pommeroy: "There would be headlines in the papers. Even the grown-up gangs who ran the betting at the all-in wrestling and the Barrow Boys would hea...

Donnie Darko

Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: It wasn't just the baby that died that day. Something inside Sick Boy was lost and never returned. It seemed that he had no theory with which to explain a moment like this... nor did I. Our only response was to keep on going a...

Trainspotting

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

Confessions

Misery is a routine you can learn to live with. It's like rain. Once you're soaked to the skin, you can't get any wetter.

The Dark Beneath

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.

Falling for the Ghost of You

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

Heart-Shaped Box

It never took her long to darken any conversation, as from birth she was inclined to see misery in each and every story, and to fabricate some when there was none.

The Bastard of Istanbul

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Joyce Meyer

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Samuel Johnson

The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragically.

Anna Karenina

Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile.

Arsen: A Broken Love Story

When we pour out our miseries, He hears a melody of us needing and desiring what only He can give.

Hope For The Weary Mom

Why is it that married people always say "Come in" when everything they do says "Get out"? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried.

The History Man

Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell!

Rain of Gold

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.

Les Misérables, tome I/3

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.

Les Misérables

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

Love Remains