Misery Quotes
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"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."
"I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less."
"He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other."
"[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever."
"Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains."
"Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."
"Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery."
"Misery is a scar on the soul, that if it begins in childhood, it lasts the whole lifetime. I understand that no two scars are alike, but I also ask myself; even if these scars are not alike, aren’t these things engraved on our souls signed by which we know each other?Aren’t we also alike?"
"I have been in my bed for five weeks, oppressed with weakness and other infirmities from which my age, seventy four years, permits me not to hope release. Added to this (proh dolor! [O misery!]) the sight of my right eye — that eye whose labors (dare I say it) have had such glorious results — is for ever lost. That of the left, which was and is imperfect, is rendered null by continual weeping."
"Forgive everyone. Forgive every misery and misfortune with love."
"A person feels the pain in judicious proportion to the sensitive nature cherished in own world; otherwise there is enough fun, happiness, enjoyment and pleasure in life."
"All sinners would be miserable in heaven."
"I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived."
"I don't reckon misery loves any damn thing at all."
"If that type of bad God did exist, then we could go on living in good health. If we could push the responsibility for our misery onto God, then we would have that much more peace of mind, wouldn't we?"
"With the love of music, there will be no misery in life."
"Inspirational quotes are only making you more miserable."
"Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of the world."
"I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?"
"Pero me sobran motivos para ser feliz. Sobre todo cuando estoy en los brazos de mis tres misses. Son tres gentiles damas a las que se llega cuando las cosas adquieren una claridad inusitada: Miss Antropía, Miss Oginia y Miss Eria; pero no las comparto, como hago con el resto de mis mujeres."
Eusebio Ruvalcaba, Una mosca devastada y deprimida sobreviviendo en un hilito de sangre
"Why are we miserable, when there is music?"
"Making someone responsible for your misery also makes them responsible for your happiness. Why give that power to anyone but yourself?"
"Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery."
"Dialogue is about freeing human beings from the beliefs and attitudes that make human beings miserable."
"When you feel unsatisfied in your life, you must immediately take action to change your perspective, thoughts, and activity. If you stay longer than necessary in your unhappy state you will find yourself sinking deeper and deeper into misery. Fortunately, no matter how deep you fall into dissatisfaction you will always be able to change your life for the better through positive action."
"It was hope that was the problem. Hoping feelings wouldn't be hurt, hoping love would blossom, that was painful. But committing yourself to misery, that was just a dead feeling. It was pulling the Band-Aid and embracing the pain."
"It is better to sing songs of hope than to sing songs of misery."
"Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that horrible potion for nothing. Harry crumpled the parchment in his hand and his eyes burned with tears as behind him Fang began to howl."
"as long as there arehuman beings aboutthere is never going to beany peacefor any individualupon this earth (oranywhere elsethey mightescape to).all you can dois maybe grabten lucky minuteshereor maybe an hourthere.somethingis working toward youright now, andI mean youand nobody butyou."
Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
"The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces."
"Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?"
"No one can usurp the heights...But those to whom the miseries of the worldAre misery, and will not let them rest."
"Remember no more your misery, listen to good music."
"Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will continue."
"If religion has nothing to do with poverty and misery then why the Muslims are the largest charity takers of the world"
"Religion starts with desolation and ends with misery."
"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
"That which cures all worldly miseries, is called ‘Scientific’ Knowledge."
"With each drop of tear that we shed in our times of excruciating pain, our brain constructs majestic new cellular connections to aid in the pursuit of our passion - in the pursuit of truth."
Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
"People are always ashamed of the misery that has befallen them, as though it were an act of divine retribution for a long-forgotten sin of theirs"
"Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery."
"How could you be sad, when you can sing?"
"Life is a misery, without music."
"All your sufferings can be alleviated by no other person but you."
"A man's ego can drive him either to heights of glory or to depths of misery!"
"One needn't stop dysfunction just evince and reflect."
"Misery teaches you the value of joy. It reveals to you the gravitas of human life."
Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
"Misery teaches you more than joy."
"Stephen King have a lot of books about the writing not only "The Writting: Memoir and Craft", but and "Nightmares and Dreamscapes", however "Misery", also and "Bag of Bones" and even and others. Which is awesome, different perspectives for being a an writer."
"Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer."
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