785 Quotes About Misery

Love should not be treated as panacea for all happiness and excessive love or love at the wrong place or for wrong people can become a source of tremendous pain and misery.

I've asked myself again and again whether it wouldn't have been better if we hadn't gone into hiding, if we were dead now and didn't have to go through this misery, especially so that the others could be spared the burden. But we all shrink from this thought. We still love life, we haven't yet forgotten the voice of nature, and we keep hoping, hoping for... everything.

Misery is the price one pays for loving the unlovable.

Why do we have different races, different colors, when we are all from the same source.

Misery begets equality.

Misery, don't flatter yourself! You're not that important.

Don’t play old tapes. Just cut the very root, just drop the whole idea of old patterns and old habits and start living in a new way. And it is only a question of decision. Once you decide, things start changing, because everything depends on your decision. That is the meaning of the word decision: it means ’it cuts’, decision. It cuts your past, it creates a discontinuity.

(...), se tapó los ojos con el brazo tratando de aferrarse a su rabia porque le da daba valor. Un hombre valiente podía pensar. Un cobarde, no.

Nobody deserves misery, but sometimes it's just your turn.