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Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery

Let me tell you something: I salute womanhood worldwide, because women are exceptionally tough for enduring the misery of childbirth. I've cleaned hogs and gutted deer, but in my experience on Earth I've never witnessed such a brutal event.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!

Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.

Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.

Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.

Misery starts with a person's reactions to someone or something outside of his or herself. In truth, it is not the event or situation or what others are saying or doing that is the problem; it's our reaction that is triggered by what we believe these words and events mean.

Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.

Misery motivates, not utopia.

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.

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

Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.

Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.

Misery makes sport to mock itself.

Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.

Misery is the River of the World

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.

Misery loves company which is ironic because it rarely throws dinner parties.

Misery travels free through the whole world!

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

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.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

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

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.