785 Quotes About Misery

Stephanie had been raped, beaten and left for dead on the Atlantic City Boardwalk several times. You'd think she would have hit rock bottom after those experiences. But no. None of that made her quit. It just made her want to use even more drugs, to forget her miserable life. As long as she could get high, she didn't care if she was being raped in a dark alley. At this point in her life, a lethal overdose probably would have felt like her salvation.

Always doubting and questioning everything strikes me as a very miserable way to live.

Satsang means the coming together (yog) of the eternal (sat); it is the coming together of good things, of positive things. And the coming together of negative things causes misery.

No matter how much difficulty one faces in satsang (the company of enlightened one) it is good but any amount of happiness of kusang (the company of bad people) is useless.

Causes (karmic) are created by doing raag-dwesh (attachment-abhorrence) in situations of happiness and misery; and causes come to an end, when one remains normal or in equanimity in situations of happiness and misery.

Laziness demands misery.

Only miserable people give misery to others. A happy person will give (only) happiness to others.

When one becomes ‘above normal’ or ‘below normal’ in circumstances; it is called a vishaya (involvement in worldly subjects and sense pleasures).

God has never experienced misery. The one, who becomes estranged from God, has misery.