Misery Quotes

"In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength." "Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable." "Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief" "Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time" "Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable" "Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life" "The goal of psychoanalysis is to turn neurotic misery into ordinary human unhappiness." "No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable" "It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise." "I like living I have sometimes been wildly despairingly acutely miserable racked with sorrow but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing" "There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery" "The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable." "Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery" "Mirrors are for misery, nothing more. They record decay." "The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope." "Cruelty is cheap, easy, and rampant. It’s also chicken shit. Especially when you attack and criticize anonymously. Most of the cruelty in the world comes from people who are miserable with themselves." "Misery and suffering in the world can be reduced through human effort and the example set by it is infectious." "Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief" "No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth." "Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."