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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's time to recognize that the EU is beyond reform and deserves to be put out of its misery.

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

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

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

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

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.