In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
Anne Frank
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.
Matt Leblanc
Misery is when you make your bed and then your mother tells you it's the day she's changing the sheets.
Suzanne Heller
I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William Shakespeare
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
Leonardo da Vinci
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
William Cobbett
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age.
William Cobbett
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Publilius Syrus
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Bertrand Russell
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.
Jane Austen
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
Montgomery Clift
We need to be ruthless, finish it off and put them out of their misery. If we play to the standards we set I'm confident we can.
Dave Nosworthy
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Joseph Addison
The traditional misery index is worse right now than it was in 2001.
Jason Furman
[Disaster coverage] feeds a demographic of grief junkies, who are tapping away at the remote control like a rat tapping for crack pellets, ... Not only does misery love company, it also makes for compelling television.
Matthew Felling
Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed.
Duff Green
The Katrina disaster happened to almost everybody in this newsroom. We're dealing with our own misery as well as trying to tell this story.
Jim Butler
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.
Kanye West
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
Matt Leblanc
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
Gates Mcfadden
Oh, my God! It's like a travesty of justice. He is basically profiting off the misery of working people. That's what it comes down to.
Bhairavi Desai
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
William Glasser
Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face.
Thomas Hardy
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
Michael Harrington
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
There is winning and there is misery.
Bill Parcells
Oh, Misery, I have drunk thy cup of sorrow to its dregs, but I am still a rebel.
Lucy Parsons
The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
Boyle Roche
I know it is the misery of men; they can make nothing of this till they feel it.
Thomas Shepard
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
Thomas Browne, Sr.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Dante Alighieri
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
There is no greater sorrowThan to be mindful of the happy timeIn misery.
Dante Alighieri
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington
Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.
Tim Hansel
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
Philip Larkin
One of the shameful chapters of this country was how so many of the comfortable-especially those who profited from the misery of others-abused her But she got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
William Mcgill
Every one of them shows a different picture of misery.
Alan Arkin
He was realizing that the cat was suffering and wanted to put it out of its misery.
Richard Hall
It is important to prevent criminals capable of such inhuman behavior from taking advantage of this misery to justify their terrible acts.
Omar Bongo
A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.
P. G. Wodehouse
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan
Happiness, noun. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce
Men who share misery together are forever brothers.
Tim Cahill
I don't like my hands tied. I am in misery. What did I say I am?
Stephen Crane
More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
Thomas Traherne
To be unhappy is only half the misfortune to be pitied is misery complete.
Arthur Schnitzler
You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.
Gordon Parks
I think the misery index will be up this summer.
Gerald Bernstein
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Madalyn Murray O'hair
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane Austen
For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony. . .
Lotte Lehmann
We tell the kids all the time: It's all about acts. This is a real life lesson. When you see misery, you can do something to make things better.
Jeffrey Davis
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.
The Dhammapada
One of the greatest sorrows of human exisence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.
Dean Koontz
When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
Bill Mauldin
George Downes: The misery! The exquisite tragedy! The Susan Hayward of it all!
My Best Friend's Wedding
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
Russell Baker
You have the power to tell them 'don't bring a drug that causes death and misery back on the market.
Joe Escobedo
If you have that slump the best players in baseball are the ones who get out of those slumps instead of the guy who wallows in misery forever.
Steve Ramharter
If we can get a gun or two or three off the streets, in terms of human misery prevented, the gains are immeasurable.
Michael Bryant
We can never flee the misery that is within us.
Arthur Golden
They put a lot of people through a lot of misery. They didn't do their jobs.
William Swor
Watching those people on television made it hard to feel sorry for myself, ... That was misery - capital M.
Matt Ridley
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Thomas Otway
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
Red Skelton
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
Richard Hooker
They sought out every loophole they could to profit from California's misery.
Bethany Mclean
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Victor Hugo
If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.
Brian Moore
Hope is the nurse of misery.
African American Proverb
The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations into a cycle of misery.
Peter Eigen
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