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Everyone is scared of having a free sexual life and what they do is go on the Internet and masturbate. This is the pure sexual misery today. They don't even go to the movie theater like in the '70s.

Every time I think that it’s not worth it – that the people in it deserve the misery of their lives – I come across someone who makes me rethink that.

Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

False fancy brings real misery.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy--even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery.

Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.

From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.

frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.

From the moment I told her about my dad, it was as if her whole body sighed in relief. As if someone else’s misery comforted her, made her feel as if she wasn’t alone.

Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed.

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

Happiness is one pole, sadness is another. Blissfulness is one pole, misery is another. Life consists of both, and life is richer because of both. A life only of blissfulness will have extension, but will not have depth. A life of only sadness will have depth, but will not have extension.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

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

Here you’re just a person…one with a life force that can feed us all. (Misery) Baby, I’m not worth the indigestion. Trust me. (Fang)

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

I am the Saudi Arabia of unhappiness. I have so many reserves of misery that you wouldn't understand. I actually think that's part of why I connect with Canadians. I think they understand grinding misery underneath.

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

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.

I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

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.