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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.

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

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.

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 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!

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.

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

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

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.

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

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

... 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.)

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.

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.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

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.

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.

ObamaCare is creating nothing but misery for everybody.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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