misery Quotes

“The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more Perfection, the cause of Man's error and misery.”

― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

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“All sinners would be miserable in heaven.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless and free from the misery I now feel.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

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“Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool, and draw shame and misery upon a man's self?”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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“Boys enjoy the misery of their companions, at least village boys in that day did, and in later life I have found that all adults are not free from the peculiarity.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

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“They seemed so like the rats he had seen outside.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against...”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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“At such moments I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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“But with the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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