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

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

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.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

I like to be myself. Misery loves company

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

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

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

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

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 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'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, 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

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

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

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.

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.