Misery Quotes
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I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.
Charles Dickens
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… life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia …
Sebastian Horsley
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Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.
Wilfrid Sheed
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Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
Lao Tzu
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If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
Michael Harrington
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I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers.
Jose Rizal
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The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's what we get. If we choose misery, we get that, too.
Anthony Robbins
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I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
Nancy Mitford
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Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.
Adam Duritz
Matt Malley
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Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
William Cowper
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.
Jane Austen
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It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.
Adolf Hitler
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We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking for suffering, but for joy. God, living in joy, wanted to communicate it to all people. This is why he sent it down into our misery, nailing it to the cross. At that point, the cross became the way toward joy. Christianity is not at all morality and prohibitions - first and foremost it is wonder before things.
Fabrice Hadjadj
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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
Albert Einstein
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It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.
Nicos Anastasiades
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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
William Cowper
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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William Shakespeare
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Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.
Stella Benson
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
William Cowper
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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
Thomas Carlyle
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I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
William Shakespeare