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Seems it's my destiny for love to cause me misery. — Pink

Create memories; forget misery. — Debasish Mridha

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom. — Simone Weil

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Don't see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery? — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery! — Mary Shelley

The misery of the moment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery. — Julie Walters

Victory Consistently, train all year to be the enemy's misery! — Lil' Wayne

Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Wine and women bring misery. — Martial

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. — Bertolt Brecht

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate. — Edmund Spenser

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases. — Joan Robinson

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space. — Charles Spurgeon

Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery. — P.N. Elrod

Have you ever wonder about the misery of sleep? — Lailah Gifty Akita

She was so tightly wrapped in herself, her own misery and dark thoughts, that she was blind to everything else. Especially him. — Francine Rivers

He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards. — Jonathan Renshaw

The short-lived crash and burn of an eternal optimist is far more deeply felt than the day-to-day misery of an eternal pessimist. — Gregor Collins

And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable. — Alyson Noel

Don't miss a chance at happiness because of your past misery. — Dustin Cruz

Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery. — Prentice Mulford

He allowed himself to imagine for the first time that the rest of his life might not be shaped by the misery of his past. — Julie Orringer

God didn't save his son one stroke of misery. He won't withhold any good thing from you. — Stephen Altrogge

Even for our enemies in misery- there should be tears in our eyes. — Charan Singh

Happiness exists where misery doesn't — Feroz Bham

A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be? — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery. — David Hume

Forgive everyone. Forgive every misery and misfortune with love. — Debasish Mridha

Don't let your outer pain, misery, and suffering touch your inner calmness and happiness. — Debasish Mridha

Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego. — Rajneesh

So, with smiles of most exquisite misery, and the laughing eye of utter despondency, — Jane Austen

The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Publicans and harlots do sooner come to heaven than Pharisees, because they are sooner convinced of their sin and misery. — Richard Baxter

After misery follow, or are at least promised to in the unwritten manuscripts of Gods, great things. Sometimes, that great thing can be death. — Nina -

Misery loves company, which explains my sudden popularity. - T-SHIRT — Darynda Jones

Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it. — Charles Platt

And miserable it is to be to others cause of misery ... — John Milton

The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end of misery and the beginning of ecstasy. — Rajneesh

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery. — Holly Black

I believe that I must do everything I can do to lessen misery. That's all I can do, and that is something enormous. It is a great power. — Anne Rice

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full. — Boyle Roche

Misery is okay; laughter is a disturbance. — Osho

Often the depths of human misery can be found amongst legions of happy people. — Russ Woody

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. — Aeschylus

I'll let a mystery gas out of my blistery ass
Just to disrupt the misery of history class. — MC Paul Barman

But of course you don't have that power. Someone wants you, or your life does. The dog's misery was all of ours. Hear him howl! Some — Damien Wilkins

Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels. — Thomas Browne

Max attacks Misery with the kind of vigor only reserved for really dirty ovens — Sarah Castille

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this. — Rush Limbaugh

Misery requires paradises lost — Jorge Luis Borges

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. — Pietro Aretino

The greatest misery in adverse fortune is once to have been happy. — Boethius

I know the sins of everyone who comes to hell. That's part of my misery. To know and feel theirs. — Tiffany McDaniel

The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery. — Barry Hannah

If you are not on your path of purpose, you will only have misery in your life. — Bryant McGill

Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery. — Mason Cooley

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery — Karl Marx

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness. — Luc De Clapiers

See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Misery should always place itself right in the face of mercy. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. — Frank Herbert

In life; threats, misery and pain weigh the same. — Auliq Ice

Against Self-Pity
It gets you nowhere but deeper into
your own shit
pure misery a luxury
one never learns to enjoy. — Rita Dove

When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy. — Debasish Mridha

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man! — Homer

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius

For the first time in six months, she wasn't thinking of her own misery. She was thinking of others - and how to make their misery worse. — G.A. Aiken

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental. — Mason Cooley

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What misery to be afraid of death.
What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven. — Mary Oliver

By today's standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal. — Hailey Giblin

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution. — Annie Besant

Money is not the cure for misery but changing our perception is. — Debasish Mridha

My life has run from misery to happiness. — Loretta Lynn

Without bread all is misery. — William Cobbett

The misery of life lies in our thinking". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

We can contain such secret misery, perversion. — Ben Marcus

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. — Spike Milligan

Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge. — Irving Stone

To acclimate students to misery under the rubric that so doing prepares them for life is a cynical notion - and a horrifying one. — David Guterson

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation. — S. N. Goenka

Stone me, what a life! — Tony Hancock

You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it. — Joyce Meyer

When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression. — Bryant McGill

He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words. — Aldous Huxley

Momma convinced us that not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. The — Maya Angelou

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. — Ralph Steadman

Your tears proves that you are an emotional human being; love, joy, sadness and misery touches you deeply. — Debasish Mridha

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery. — Benjamin Franklin

It is much easier to die than to bear a life of misery with fortitude. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Misery misery son of a bitch of all miseries. — Walker Percy

Reading is a bridge from misery to hope. — Rebecca VanDeMark

The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious. — William Shakespeare

It's in the misery of some unnamed slum that the next killer virus will emerge. — Barack Obama

It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar. — Silius Italicus

Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream or turn you to stone. — Emil M. Cioran