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

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

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.

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.

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.

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 is miserable unless you think it so.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

ObamaCare is creating nothing but misery for everybody.

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

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

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

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

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

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

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.

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 optional

Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

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

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.