785 Quotes About Misery

Sin carries in it its own misery.

Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.