M Quotes
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“Misery fascinates people. Especially if it’s someone else’s misery.”
Source: Rosie: An Old Castle Novel
“Misery filled his eyes. "You were supposed to be my one true love. you were supposed to want me, not him. you were supposed to be as obsessed with me as I am with you.”
Source: Finale
“Misery fills the emptiness that hope leaves behind when the world disappoints you.”
Source: A Grimm Warning
“Misery generates hate.”
Source: Shirley: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.”
“Misery is a book about cocaine. Annie Wilkes is cocaine. She was my number-one fan.”
Source: Misery
“Misery is a communicable disease.”
“Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.”
Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)
“Misery is a match that never goes out.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“Misery is a no U-turns, no stopping road. Travel down it pushed by those behind, tripped by those in front. Travel down it at furious speed though the days are mummified in lead. It happens so fast once you get started, there’s no anchor from the real world to slow you down, nothing to hold on to. Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall. Whatever your private hell, you’ll find millions like it in Misery. This is the town where everyone’s nightmares come true.”
Source: Written On The Body
“Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss.”
Source: The Tarishe Curse
“Misery is a scar on the soul, that if it begins in childhood, it lasts the whole lifetime. I understand that no two scars are alike, but I also ask myself; even if these scars are not alike, aren’t these things engraved on our souls signed by which we know each other?Aren’t we also alike?”
Source: الحب في المنفى
“Misery is a school for achieving successes in life.”
“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”
Source: Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert
“Misery is an unpleasant painful experience (ashata vedaniya); result of misery is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self).”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes
“Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.”
“Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.”
“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.”
“Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.”
“Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.”
“Misery is only better than death because you can rise from it.”
“Misery is the company of lawsuits.”
“Misery is the currency trade on social media. That is why sociopath and stalkers have found a place to call home. Clout chasers are upgrading from cat fishing to sadfishing.”
“Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.”
“Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.”
“Misery is the River of the World”
“Misery is vitamin for the Soul (The Real-Self), and happiness is vitamin for the body (The Non-Self).”
Source: Fault is of the Sufferer
“Misery is wasted on the miserable.”
“Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.”
“Misery is when you always seem to be getting dressed in black to go to a funeral.
Misery is when you get there and realize that the person who is dead is another close friend.
Misery is when you look around and all your friends are crying.
Misery is when you hear them say they'll try to stop and stay away from this stuff.
Misery is when the next day you see them stocking up in White Clay for a party soon to come.
Misery is whenyou hear the sirens, and you have to sit and wonder whose funeral you'll be attending for the next few days.
Misery is when you realize they'll never stop,
and you'll always be choosing black clothing for the next day.
(Kayla Matthews, student)”
Source: Walking on Earth and Touching the Sky: Poetry and Prose by Lakota Youth at Red Cloud Indian School
“Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing
“Misery Lark? No need to be careful. She’s not particularly dangerous, so feel free to cross her. What is she gonna do? Chuck her lint roller at you?”
Source: Bride
“Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.”
Source: Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us
“Misery loves company, as someone unbearably trite said once.”
Source: The Armageddon Rag
“Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.”
Source: Life of Pi
“Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.”
Source: The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom ...
“Misery loves company, but happy is a better friend.”
“Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.”
Source: The Water Ghost and Others: Bangs Classic Collection
“Misery loves company.”
“Misery makes sport to mock itself.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“Misery makes you special. Misery makes you more egoistic. A miserable man can have a more concentrated ego than a happy man. A happy man really cannot have the ego, because a person becomes happy only when there is no ego. The more egoless, the more happy; the more happy, the more egoless. You dissolve into happiness. You cannot exist together with happiness; you exist only when there is misery. In happiness there is dissolution.”
“Misery motivates, not utopia.”
“Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.”
“Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.”
Source: Poor Russell's almanac
“Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.”
“Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.”
“Misery starts with a person's reactions to someone or something outside of his or herself. In truth, it is not the event or situation or what others are saying or doing that is the problem; it's our reaction that is triggered by what we believe these words and events mean.”
“Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.”
Source: The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence
“Misery teaches you the value of joy. It reveals to you the gravitas of human life.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost