Misery quotations

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◆ I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.

- Hugh Laurie99

◆ ...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonid? with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice... I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.

- Charles Darwin99

◆ A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

- P.G. Wodehouse99

◆ There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.

- Dante Alighieri99

◆ I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

- Arthur Golden99

◆ People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

- Franz Kafka99

◆ Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

- Elizabeth Gilbert99

◆ To be surrounded by sixty people who make your life miserable is to be at a family reunion. But to be surrounded by 600,000 people who make the whole world miserable is to live in Washington DC. ?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

- Jodi Picoult99

◆ Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again.

- Greg Behrendt99

◆ I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

- Gabriel Garcí-a Márquez99

◆ Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

- Emil Cioran99

◆ 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.

- Cassandra Clare99

◆ Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

- Daniel Kahneman99

◆ Once you start ignoring your enemies they will be disappointed because they will no longer have the POWER to make you angry or miserable.

- Sonya Parker99