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Naught so sweet as melancholy.

... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what to accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes you up and what makes you fall asleep. No one else can really sort out for you what to accept - what opens up your world - and what to reject - what seems to keep you going round and round in some kind of repetitive misery.

No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so. ~ Inferno

None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

ObamaCare is creating nothing but misery for everybody.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.

Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair, and it can also be a dance. It all depends how deeply ready you are to accept existence, whatsoever it brings.

Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.

One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.

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

Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him. "A fine pair we make,” he said. "Yeah.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.

Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.

Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.

Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a vehicle for the divine, it can never become the passage for the beyond.

Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery.

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

Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.