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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

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

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.

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 just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

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!

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

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

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.

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.

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

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

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.

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!

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

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 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.

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

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

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.