182 Misery Quotes for You to Enjoy

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time. Fiona Shaw

Time Misery Acting

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day. Gifford Pinchot

Day Failure Progress Prosperity Will Practice Pay Our Unless Those Degradation Misery Price Come After Us Who Conservation

As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at the same time, one of the effects of receiving the message that you don't belong to the club is that you watch the club with detachment. The fact that no one quite knew who I was was a major contributory factor in starting to write. Glen Duncan

Time You Minority Club Kid Detachment Fact Factor Misery Write No-One Knew Major Message Source Effects Same Quite Same Time Who Watch Belong Receiving Basically Starting

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. Graham Greene

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery. Grant-Lee Phillips

Think Easier Would Find Inspiration Misery Songwriters Lot Often Agree

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that. Harvey Pekar

Misery Loves Company Misery Lot Loves Company

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does. James Gray

You Class Somebody Everybody Else Way About Something Economic Misery True Almost Knowing Does Same Difference Lives

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something. Janis Joplin

Happiness Time You Conversation Yourself Feeling Those Inside About Something Misery Push Feel Make Because Polite Trying Just Them Aside Letting Things Necessarily Playing

In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery. Jarvis Cocker

Life You Better Will Thought Made Ways Papers Some Misery Better Off Like Because Rock Always Rock Star Normal Off End Up Normal Person Person Behaving Your Star

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes! Jean Racine

Hopes Misery Thank Gods

I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps. Jenny Lewis

Art Think Misery Period Created Certainly Helps

I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement. John Cusack

Great Darkness Think Resonant About Poe Misery He Part Instinct Towards Great Story Self-Destruction Wrote Sorrowful Because Goth Godfather Represents Movement Wants Story Literature Us Explore Perverse Whole

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. John Ruskin

Work Best Age People Doubt Hesitation Plodding Lies Misery Powerful Powerful People Most Practical Well Doing Hand Them Nearly

We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle. Joko Beck

Life Time Nature Looking Finding Rather Misery Puzzle Boundless Answer Caught Limitless Causes Perplexing Lot Contradiction Begin Same Same Time Being Which Us Aware

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies. Jonathan Mayhew

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery. Joseph Butler

Compassion Final Relieve Prevent Misery Causes Then

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it. Josephine Baker

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