785 Quotes About Misery

I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.

Misery teaches you more than joy.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Because we are always growing, life compounds and magnifies what is already in us. If you are miserable you grow in misery and if you are joyful you grow in joy. This makes self-love is the perfect soil from which to grow love.

Talking to Reva about misery was insufferable. 'Look on the bright side,' was what she wanted everyone to do.

One must resist the temptation to make oneself miserable.

But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

A selfish life is as empty as a candle sitting astride of a grave that is doomed to blow out with the next puff of dry wind.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.