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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.

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 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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

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.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

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

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.

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

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery.

I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.

I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they were rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves and of one another.

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

I like to be myself. Misery loves company

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both.

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.

I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

It is equally important to investigate wellness as it is to study misery.

I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.

It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.