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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

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

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

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

I like to be myself. Misery loves company

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.

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

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been possible... that you could have returned the love of the man you see before yourself- flung away, wasted, drunken, poor creature of misure as you know him to be- he would have been conscious this day and hour, in spite of his happiness, that he would bring you misery, bring you to sorrow and repetance, blight you, disgrace you, pull you down with him

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.