Quotes about Miserable People to Inspire and Melt Your Heart
Famous Misery Quotes
“Misery is wasted on the miserable.” —Louis C.K.
“Civilized misery is the worst misery.” —Agatha Christie
“Misery can only be quelled but never cured.” —Nina, Johnny Kiddow
“Each indulgence in pleasure is an appointment made with misery.” —Jason Paul
“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.” —Emil Cioran, All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms
“Misery loved company, but damnation needed it.” —John Connolly, The Wolf in Winter
“There is no Mystery as great as Misery.” —Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince
“Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery.” —Michel de Montaigne
“Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation.” —Debasish Mridha
“Pain and suffering are inevitable in our lives, but misery is an option.” —Chip Beck
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” —Andrew Schweitzer
“I don’t reckon misery loves any damn thing at all.” —Bruce Machart, The Wake of Forgiveness
“Always doubting and questioning everything strikes me as a very miserable way to live.” —Marty Rubin
“I’d rather be miserable loving you than happy with anyone else.” —Angela Morrison, Sing Me to Sleep
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.” —Dante Alighieri
“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.” —William James
“Don’t let feeling lonely push you into the arms of a person who will make you miserable.” —Stephan Labossiere
“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.” —Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.” —Daniel Kahneman, Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology
“What is the point of roaming the world when it’s the same misery everywhere?” —Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
“In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.” —John Lyly, Euphues the Anatomy of Wit: Euphues & His England
“A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.” —Joseph Addison
“Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.” —Bryant McGill
“I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.” —Martha Washington
“People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.” —Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka
“The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.” —George Bernard Shaw
“No one can usurp the heights… But those to whom the miseries of the world are misery, and will not let them rest.” —John Keats
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.” —Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
“No misery compares to staring at a clear night’s sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever out of reach.” —Richelle E. Goodrich
“I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.” —Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
“The most baffling about the human psyche is that even after seeing the misery and suffering all around, he is convinced that these would befall only to others and not on to him.” —Gian Kumar
“A man’s subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.” —P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally
Miserable Quotes and Sayings
“Miserable person lives without ideals.” —Ivan Turgenev
“A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.” —Seneca
“The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.” —William Shakespeare
“The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.” —Jean De La Bruyere
“Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.” —Francis Picabia
“’Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.” —Miguel De Cervantes
“All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” —Blaise Pascal
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.” —Carlos Castaneda
“The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.” —Nicolas Chamfort
“Happy people find a way to live with their problems, and miserable people let their problems stop them from living.”
“Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.” —Lemony Snicket
“The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.” —Jean Jacques Rousseau
“It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.” —George Eliot
“The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.” —Jerome
“Miserable people focus on the things they hate about their life. Happy people focus on the things they love about their life.” —Sonya Parker
“I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.” —Martha Washington
“The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.” —George Bernard Shaw
“A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.” —Eric Hoffer
“If someone makes you miserable more than they make you happy, it doesn’t matter how much you love them, you need to let them go.” —Unknown
“The miser, starving his brother’s body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.” —Theodore Parker
“People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person’s habitual misery.” —Graham Greene
“We generally fancy ourselves more miserable than we are, for want of taking a true estimate of things; wherefore we fly into transports without reason, and judge of the happiness or calamity of human life, by false lights.” —Wellins Calcott
“Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.” —Samuel Johnson
“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.” —C. S. Lewis