785 Quotes About Misery

And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.

Everything was silent. Only man was awake in his misery, laboring in the sweat of his brow for the sake of this absurd existence that he passionately loves and despises in equal measure.

Rarely, if ever, does our conscience realizes the crisis our evil deeds cause. Seems the human mind is wired to find joy in another's misfortune. The Germans call it Schadenfreude.

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.

I could see it on the faces of people as they passed. I would smile to share my joy, but it was AS IF I upset them with my happiness. In Confusion they would reply with a negative remark. Hoping it would spark a new chain of negative thoughts in me bringing me down to their level misery.

It'd felt good to be part of an "us," with the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same miseries.

The cold is waiting to ooze through the soles of your shoes. Maggot-damp, this city is festering: home to hollow faces of grey flesh. They stare from windows unclean, into the sun never reaches: dismal lives lived in dismal constriction.

You know when things get inside you and you can't stop going round and round the same piece of misery.

A face on him as long as a hare's back leg.