M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Misery, thy name is Mudslide”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
“Misery travels free through the whole world!”
Source: Schiller's Complete Works
“Misery vanishes when you get used to misery
I suffered so much that it became easy”
Source: Dozakhnama
“Misery was a creeping thing, like the dew settling on grass or the cold fingers of frost meeting me in my bed at night and crackling the insides of my windows. I had longed to be left alone, to escape the lie of my family, only to discover this was different kind of poison. Slow acting, but lethal. At first it numbed me, pleasure leaching from my days like a summer leaf draining of sap to greet the autumn. Then loneliness came, a creeping oily stain that stopped me from enjoying it at all.”
Source: Bitterthorn
“Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.”
Source: The French Revolution: a History
“Misery will not come to the one who does not deceive his own Self. Miseries arise because one deceives one’s own Self.”
“Misery will not leave from where there is excessive bad or harmful associations with that which takes you away from the Self (kusang). Whereas happiness will not leave from where there is excessive association with Self-realized beings or spiritual discourses (satsang)!”
Source: Avoid Clashes
“Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.”
“Misery wreaks havoc. The yawning gap between this place and the rest of the country is unfathomable to anyone who has not experienced it. Boko Haram recruits them like child's play because the sect at least offers a tangible, immediate solution. As shocking as we might find it, their message appeals to some. Dying for God is more thrilling than dying of hunger, humiliation, or because the neighbourhood dispensary has run out of antibiotics. Maybe one day someone will study just how personally distressed one must be to weaponise faith against one's own people, but that is not my job.”
Source: Days Come and Go
“Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.”
Source: Two Plays: Professor Taranne, Translated by Peter Meyer, and Ping Pong, Translated by Derek Prouse
“Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.”
“Misery, in cold truth, is a weight less upon those who undergo it than upon the minds of those who see it; for he who is cold and starving is so busy in his efforts to obtain warmth and food that he has little time for self-pity, and endures his unhappy condition better than those who take it upon themselves to suffer for him.”
Source: Oliver Wiswell
“Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.”
Source: Technics and Civilization
“Misfit toys
don't bring
Christmas joy
Shut up and unwrap
your shiny new identity crisis
She's playing mind games
again
And declares herself the winner
As a child,
I looked for a heart for her
at every yard sale
I could only afford
decay”
Source: Doll Shaker
“Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.”
“Misfits Change the World Every. Single. Day.”
Source: Life Legacy Challenge: Write a Book! Share Your Wisdom, Ideas and Stories to Profit Future Generations
“Misfits, con artists, evildoers all had business cards. It was enough to make any man a bona fide misanthrope.”
Source: Pattaya 24/7
“Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.”
“Misfits?" Sasha gets out raged before I can even think of a response. "Unorthodox, yes. Lacking in fashion sense? Possibly. But that will change with a little help from Marta and myself. More importantly, Devin is an excellent roommate... friendly, kind, and the sort of Princess who wouldn't stab you in the back the first chance she gets. She's a way better choice than you."
Whoa. Sasha is a force to be reckoned with.”
“Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.”
“Misfortune and mistake after mistake arise from the first mistakes.”
“Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward.”
“Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.”
“Misfortune does not help us to believe.”
“Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.”
Source: The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton
“Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“Misfortune is also good fortune, in a way. It is relative. For, you get to know who truly are your friends, and who really are your true relatives.”
“Misfortune is mostly an awkwardness!”
“Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.”
“Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.”
“Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.”
“Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.”
“Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.”
“Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.”
“Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.”
“Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.”
“Misfortune may become fortune through patience.”
“Misfortune never comes singly. It's surrounded by bodyguards.”
Source: The New Land
“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”
“Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of his appetites and assumptions) and more resources to deal with it if it occurs (being better able to put it in perspective and maintain his own evenness of self-mastery). Tragedy as a dramatic form is meant to foster the ethos of sophrosyne or moderation, "nothing to excess"; it nurtures a sense of distance from the dominant illusions and delusions that may infect even aristoi.”
“Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.”
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
Source: Eudemian Ethics
“Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth [gems] of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.”
“Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus
“Misfortune was my god.”
Source: A Season in Hell: The Illuminations
“Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.”
“Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.”
“Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.”
Source: This Business of Living
“Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.”
Source: Six Months in Italy
“Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.”