Top 232 Misery Quotes

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

I made my kids into Viking fans, so they will carry their misery with them, too. A little disappointment in life goes a long way.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Unless progress with agricultural yields remains very strong, the next century will experience sheer human misery that, on a numerical scale, will exceed the worst of everything that has come before.

Misery loves company.

Our creator says, ‘Here’s your birth and here’s your death‘ – and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience – and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Acting doesn’t have to be threadbare misery all the time.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

When I was seven and told my mom, ‘I’m gonna be a writer,’ she said, ‘Oh, that’s a terrible idea. You’ll live in misery and die teaching other people‘s children badly.’ My parents wanted the safer path for me, and I think they failed miserably achieving that.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

I’ve led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I’m like, and I just go, ‘Ugh’.

And I’m a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there’s nothing more aging than misery.

Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where my parents used to live. ‘Brink of Life’ was the first one I ever saw. Three pregnant women in a maternity ward and their misery – I love that. That is what I want to show at my funeral.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the hopelessness of even thinking about driving.

If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women.

As members of a social species endowed with large brains, we are natural-born marketers. Capitalism, the economic system that has elevated innumerable people out of abject poverty and misery, is founded on marketing. Everything that defines your daily existence has the indelible marks of marketing on it.

When I first went to interview for ‘Misery,’ they were saying things like, ‘You’re not Michelle Pfeiffer, you know.’ And I just don’t get the relevance of that remark. I’m not Elizabeth Taylor, either. I’m not Sean Connery.

I’m a bit bored of going to the gym! I’m like, ‘Someone put me out of my misery – I can’t do this anymore!’

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

There’s so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it’s much more gloomy, there’s a perpetual misery there.

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

Misery is a communicable disease.

The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.

Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

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.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

There’s enough misery in the world today without going out of the way to create more.

Maybe it’s the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

If we are to depression-proof our economy we may need to pay more attention to the radical ideas and policies of those who witnessed the misery inflicted on so many during the 1930s.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

I don’t thrive on misery myself. I mean, I’ve obviously created during a time of misery, but I also create from a place of joy.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

The period that directly follows the dissolution of a long term relationship is extremely volatile, with emotions running the gamut from misery to elation to relief to terror.

There are awful things that happen, dreams get crushed, you build yourself back up again, and then there are, hopefully, incredible partners in misery that say, ‘Let me help you. I’ve been there before.’

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

The cup of Ireland‘s misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I’ve always thought there is lack of criticism against it.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women.

People enjoy our misery so much, but honestly on those days, the days that you know that you’re the one getting it, it’s actually not a fun day for the person that’s there. Everybody else is cool, the other three guys.

August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

People will come up, and they’ll talk about ‘Misery.’ But a lot of people will talk about ‘Waterboy.’

A manufacturing nation is, in every sense of the word, dependent on others. Look to England! Cut off from the markets of the world, misery and ruin await her.

I don’t search it out – I really want to be clear, I don’t search out the misery! I’m not sitting at home going, ‘I can’t wait to do another harrowing piece of work.’

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

If you view history as a backdrop, set-dressing or fiction, then ‘Pride and Prejudice‘ is hugely entertaining. My reread saw the misery of the female characters‘ reality. My new reaction was sadness and fury. Knowledge ruins everything!

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed, sagging in the middle, red hair sticking out of the mattress, the spring gone and the fleas leaping all over the place.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world – and there clearly are – then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can’t suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

Your executives liking your show makes all the difference in the world. It’s the difference between happiness and misery.

If you look at the greatest performances of women, they’re usually older… Anne Bancroft in ‘The Graduate,’ Kathy Bates in ‘Misery.’ It’s a matter of characters having a life experience that makes them interesting.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Think about it: Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, North Korea, the former Soviet Union – they all start with the intention of leveling the playing field – or making things better for the little guy – and instead, they created misery, poverty, destruction and a permanent ruling class of bureaucrats.

Misery loves company. There’s a lot to that.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Some people get fat when they’re miserable; certainly this was true of my teenage self, but as an adult, deliver me a week of extreme stress and misery and watch me disappear.

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things – it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man’s dreams, man’s illness, man’s redemption from the misery of poverty – poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

I lived a permissive, fast, and reckless lifestyle. I hope I can serve as a warning that living this lifestyle can really lead to only one thing, and that’s misery.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people’s points of view – these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can’t allow them to delude us to the point where we can’t recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn’t buy you happiness.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

So far I haven‘t really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want to change it.

Placing ‘amicable’ and ‘separation‘ together creates an oxymoron – we don’t usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

I would say that it’s wrong to milk someone‘s misery.

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up – not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.

The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.

The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, ‘It’s not literature unless is ends badly,’ and I really don’t like that. There’s enough misery and bad things happening in the world.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

If you don’t love what you are doing, it could be misery.

Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.

Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

Growth is usually uncomfortable. If you’re looking for comfort, you will more than likely feel tired and old earlier than you want, and the misery of your caged soul will always be looming nearby.

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

I haven’t done much rereading or rewatching stuff I’ve written over the years, but I did look at ‘Misery’ before I started the play. I liked it. Not much I would change.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

I’m not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I’m recognized – that would be absolute misery.

As a striker, your job is mostly to forget. When you have someone like Vidic marking you, and it’s misery for 89 minutes, all you have to do is forget everything. Forget the 89 minutes. Because in the 90th minute, you might finally get your chance. I have been pretty good at this in my career.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

‘Misery’ left a lasting mark on me. When I die, it will be ‘Kathy ‘Misery’ Bates Is Dead.’

Nothing of substance is being achieved or even proposed, while the country remains trapped in the Kafka-esque misery that Brexit has become.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

My advice: Don’t quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn’t give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have not lost their will to progress and develop. Mozambique is a country where the people never surrendered.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

What’s interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It’s either a utopia or it’s misery. The real truth is that there’s going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

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.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I’ve endured over the past twenty-five years.

It’s been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

I still don’t understand why we need a gigantic airport sprawled across South East England. What does it gain us, compared with the misery of noise, pollution and congestion it causes in our cramped country? Would it really be so bad if we had to take a train to Paris or Amsterdam to fly to the U.S.A.?

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

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.

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.

After a casual listen, it might be easy to lump Rocky Votolato in with the downtrodden likes of Conor Oberst and Elliott Smith. But his songwriting is a bit more triumphant than theirs: Votolato would rather pull himself out of a gutter than wallow in it, focusing instead on the victory before the misery.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.

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.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don’t intentionally go for dark.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I’ve spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

If I’m not working, I like to attend a dancing class. At least that keeps you in condition. Then, if you get a call for a dancing part, you don’t have to go through two weeks of misery getting back in shape.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

Mr. Modi is responsible for everyone‘s misery, demonetisation disaster, destruction of all democratic institutions. He is creating problems for everybody: for political leaders, for media, for corporates. He is not following any democratic values.

August, the summer‘s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

I don’t think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

All interesting, worthwhile humans suffered and struggled and overcame adversity of one sort or another. Pain is constructive. Misery can be useful. I believed this the way I believe the sun rises in the east. Then I had children, and I slowly began to disbelieve and disavow it.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

There is winning and there is misery.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

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.

God loves us too much to leave us in the hell of unhappiness that comes from trying to do his job. Into the slavish misery of our ladder-defined lives, God condescends.

I guess lyrically they’re similar because they’re talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. ‘The Last One Alive,’ for me, is very simple. It’s just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.

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.

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger‘s voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men’s eyes might not see Her misery.

Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning cascade of the violence and misery of the worldwide human race. There comes a time when we need to find some peaceful spiritual renewal.

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn’t -it’s human.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I’ve endured over the past twenty-five years.

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

I wasn’t present for my own life for a long time. I wasn’t there; I wasn’t in my relationships; I wasn’t in my band; I wasn’t in my soul – I was disconnected from all of it. I would let myself live in a miserable situation forever, mostly of my own making. I made my own misery and made the people around me miserable.

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China – the greatest and oldest despotism in the world – for a cheap working slave.

You don’t necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it’s humor that’s often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It’s mostly about random pointless death and misery.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

I grew up watching Kathy Bates, and ‘Misery’ is one of my favorite films.

My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I’m not interested in being unhappy.

To live by one man’s will becomes the cause of all misery.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

A smart society recognises the benefits of treating problems before they escalate, either through helping people quit smoking or moving them out of mould-blighted bedsits. A compassionate society also tries to limit human misery and suffering wherever possible.

I don’t care how big a director is; if I hear that he’s miserable to work with, I’m not going to do it. I’m not gonna be in misery for two months because it’s a good career move.

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

It’s a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.

Wherever socialism spread, misery followed – and still follows.

The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one’s own misery. ‘That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?’

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

Banning smoking in vehicles with children in them will help protect them from the misery of smoking-related diseases, from cancer to asthma and emphysema.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All of life passed through the Limerick courthouse. Misery, malevolence, the dark side of humanity… I tell ya, it made ‘Angela’s Ashes‘ look like ‘The Wonderful World of Disney.’

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

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I’m not terribly method.

I am deeply concerned about the impact of poverty on children because poverty can destroy their future and bind them to a life of misery.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you’ve made is worth the misery of having to review it.

India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can’t afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can’t allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the backbreaking labor it took to pick the strawberries for my cereal, or the misery of the hog that lived and died so I could enjoy my bacon.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

To do art, one thing should always remember – subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.