Misery Quotes
Words that sit with sorrow, hardship, and the weight of suffering.
These quotes explore misery from several angles, from its presence as raw material in art to ignorance as one of its deepest roots. The theme pairs naturally with Pain Quotes.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
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Depth Quotes
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.
Emotion Quotes
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Pain Quotes
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
Sadness Quotes
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Other lines warn that rushing toward success can itself breed misery, a caution worth pairing with Sadness Quotes or Emotion Quotes for a fuller picture of hard feelings.
