misery Quotes

“It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:misery home

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

topic:money misery

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, 'So what.'”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

topic:misery

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:happiness society misery

“Me miserable! which way shall I flyInfinite wrath, and infinite despair?Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell;And, in the lowest deep, a lower deepStill threatening to devour me opens wide,To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

topic:hell despair misery

“Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

topic:life misery

“You are young, and in love . . . Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.”

― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

topic:love youth misery

“If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mother, your Dad, your priest, to some guy on television, to any of the people telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

topic:boredom misery listening

“In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

topic:misery value

“Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:learning misery

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