Misery Quotes
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To fully appreciate the music, you have to see the misery.
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Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.
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Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
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The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be just as easy to switch over and get exactly what they want out of life, not recognizing that the mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.
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Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
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Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.
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When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
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If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
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There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.
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The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic. Ask the questions that will uplift your spirit and push you along the path of human excellence
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The childless escape much misery.
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If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
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My life has run from misery to happiness.
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Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
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What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?
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We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.
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Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.
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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.
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
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The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
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No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.
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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.
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...life brings you everything at once. You can be in misery because of the misery of your daughter at the same time as you're exhilarated by a new romance, a romance that feels like the first act of a new life.
