"Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery"
Read quote
3 likes
Misery quotes
Misery
512 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Misery
Browse quotes that often appear alongside misery — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Misery quotes (page 10 of 26)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both."
Read quote
3 likes
"Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery."
Read quote
3 likes
"As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery."
Read quote
3 likes
"It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world."
Read quote
3 likes
"No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves."
Read quote
3 likes
"Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune from all anger, I never feel angry. If am immune from all hatred, I never feel hatred."
Read quote
3 likes
"If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure."
Read quote
3 likes
"My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery."
Read quote
3 likes
"There is no Mystery so great as Misery."
Read quote
3 likes
"The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime."
Read quote
3 likes
"Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good."
Read quote
3 likes
"The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery."
Read quote
3 likes
"In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history."
Read quote
3 likes
"The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth."
Read quote
3 likes
"Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life."
Read quote
3 likes
"I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery."
Read quote
3 likes
"Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives in misery, which has led to violent confrontation throughout the century."
Read quote
3 likes
"Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become."
Read quote
3 likes
"Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly."
Read quote
3 likes