785 Quotes About Misery

I don't think I can marry, I'm not fit for it, I'm not real enough. That's the trouble. I'm a puppet that's realised what's wrong with itself and it's horrible. I'm propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I'm propped up crying in a corner.

Happiness today is where envy and hate are alive.

The best kind of love is the one that results in the profoundest level of melancholy. Longing for someone whom you have never been with or desiring someone, who, for some reason, can’t ever be yours, are the kinds of pain that must be embraced and endured. It’s a privilege to feel sad because of love. For it means the love has served its purpose. As it evoked the emotions in us that we were never ready for.

Making someone responsible for your misery also makes them responsible for your happiness. Why give that power to anyone but yourself?

His life cries for an unknown land of joy;where sadness lingers between border linesHis discolored steps towards the decoymisconstrued as the mystery declinesFrom the poem Sonnet For A Man (Part II)

It is our expectation of how things should be, it is our anticipation of the future, which puts us in a state of misery.

Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.

Sometimes it's hard not to let other people's misery seep into your own bones.

Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone’s misery is their own stupidity and laziness.