Misery Quotes

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can't choose the consequences of your choices. They're preloaded. It's a package deal.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

... the misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

In the society of to-day the means of production are a monopoly of the capitalistic class; the dependence of the working classes which results from this is the cause of misery and of servitude in all its forms.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

I don't like comedy that makes me feel worse about the world than I already felt before I turned it on.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

If there is a worse place than Hell, I must be in it.

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

"What would you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?" "No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every man would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged."

I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

He is stern and severe—with fixed principles of duty which nothing on earth will make him change; very clever I do not think him, and his mind is an uncivilized one; his education has been neglected; politics and military concerns are the only things he takes great interest in; the arts and all softer occupations he is insensible to, but he is sincere, I am certain, sincere even in his most despotic acts, from a sense that that is the only way to govern; he is not, I am sure, aware of the dreadful cases of individual misery which he so often causes, for I can see by various instances that he is kept in utter ignorance of many things, which his people carry out in most corrupt ways, while he thinks that he is extremely just.

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.