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What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self?
— Henry James
In separateness lies the world's greatest misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.
— Gautama Buddha
Absolute beauty,
That which contains all the world's majesty and misery
And which is only visible to those who love. — Roberto Bolano
That which contains all the world's majesty and misery
And which is only visible to those who love. — Roberto Bolano
There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a perpetual misery there.
— Brian Cox
Misery is a routine you can learn to live with. It's like rain. Once you're soaked to the skin, you can't get any wetter.
— Alan Gibbons
Moominpappa: "Tell us all that's happening out in the world!"
Snufkin: "Fuss and misery."
- from "Moomin and Family Life" comic strip — Tove Jansson
Snufkin: "Fuss and misery."
- from "Moomin and Family Life" comic strip — Tove Jansson
Okay. So what? I can move to another. Life's too short to spend in misery.' 'The biggest mistake is not to face reality,
— Peter Gray
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.
— Henry Rollins
I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own.
— Katja Millay
There's no democratic state that's not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
— Gilles Deleuze
There are fears that Britain could be facing a double-dip recession, or worse still, a double-dip with misery sprinkles and fuck-where's-my-job-sauce.
— Frankie Boyle
It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.
— Nicos Anastasiades
Whenever you think about smoking you must see it as a lifetime's chain of filth, disease, fear, misery and slavery.
— Allen Carr
Did it really have to be like this?that the source of Man's contentment becomes the source of his misery?
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.
— Joyce Meyer
In Czech, according to Milan Kundera, litost is a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery.
— Rabih Alameddine
I can honestly say that my misery had been transformed into common unhappiness, so by Freud's definition I have achieved mental health.
— Susanna Kaysen
Misery tells me to shut my mouth or he'll shut it for me with something so big, I'll never be able to talk again. I hope it's a big slice of pizza.
— Sarah Castille
Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.
— Adam Duritz
...the pleasure of finally making a clean break into misery after always dangling above it's canyon...
— Liz Moore
Wherever there's a happy vacuum caused by an absence of misery, human beings rush in to fill it.
— Harvey Stanbrough
That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone.
— Edward T. Lowe Jr.
All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the blue-nosed misery.
— Ruth Pitter
All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart.
— James Baldwin
If your life is a miserable disaster, you might want to consider, that it's because you are doing something wrong.
— Bryant McGill
The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.
— John Kennedy Toole
For most men the world is centered in self, which is misery: to have one's world centered in God is peace.
— Donald Hankey
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
— Jon Krakauer
Those who look on other people's misery with indifference are the most
miserable of all. — Paulo Coelho
miserable of all. — Paulo Coelho
Even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery.
— Joseph O'Neill
Band together with the brothers and sisters of misery and never stray. You are the integral part of the deeply depressed. We found you. Hooray.
— S.A. Tawks
In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
— Samuel Johnson
I have learned that trying to control other people's opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness.
— Dan Pearce
If you make a mistake, you got to make it right. I realized I had a choice. I could sit in my misery or I could do something about it." Pulling
— Carol S. Dweck
Joy come and go like pleasant breeze. It's the miseries that stick in you like thorns - until you realize that it's all your doing.
— Sadghuru
I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.
— Beverly D'Angelo
A face on him as long as a hare's back leg.
— Myles Na GCopaleen
It isn't drugs addicts have to give up. It's misery.
— Marty Rubin
When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery.
— Matthew Syed
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Life is really weird, I thought. It's not just bad people who spread misery - even pretty things can be hurtful. So hard to understand
— Nujood Ali
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
It's always winter but it's never Christmas.
— C.S. Lewis
The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.
— Harry S. Truman
It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.
— Christine Keeler
It was Arthur's welcome alone, I believe, which turned the tide of misery for Merlin.
— Stephen R. Lawhead
Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.
— Rajneesh
A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery
— Anne Frank
Your executives liking your show makes all the difference in the world. It's the difference between happiness and misery.
— Rob Thomas
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
— Albert Schweitzer
It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.
— Tom Perrotta
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
— Charlie Chaplin
Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused misery.
— Sonya Hartnett
Without me, without me,
Everyday's misery.
But with me - am I wrong?
No night is too long! — Barbara Vine
Everyday's misery.
But with me - am I wrong?
No night is too long! — Barbara Vine
Whoever said misery loves company was full of shite. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, however ... that guy was onto something.
— Stephen King
Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world's pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I don't believe in happiness anyway ... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.
— Frank McCourt
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
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
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
I know the sins of everyone who comes to hell. That's part of my misery. To know and feel theirs.
— Tiffany McDaniel
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
— Ralph Steadman
The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.
— S. N. Goenka
Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.
— Benjamin Franklin
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
I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished a picture.
— Edgar Degas
They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.
— Hal Elrod
Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
— Phillips Brooks
He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery.
— Holly Black
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
— Richard Hooker
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.
— David D. Burns
Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.
— Toni Morrison
We twist our souls around each other's miseries.
— Anthony Marra
That smelled strongly of misery, which, as anyone will tell you, is a subtle mixture of hope, despair, rancid cooking fat, and men's piss.
— Philip Kerr
Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.
— William Shakespeare
And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.
— Michelle Pfeiffer
It's often in your deepest misery that brings out your greatest self
— Thabiso Monkoe
Misery will not come to the one who does not deceive his own Self. Miseries arise because one deceives one's own Self.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.
— Lester Levenson
Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'
— C.S. Lewis
Just die. It'll end everyone's misery, including your own.
— Karen Marie Moning
When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin.
— Stephen King