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QUOTES ON MISERY

In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.

JOHN LYLY, Euphues

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.

BERTRAND RUSSELL, Unpopular Essays

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.

LORD BYRON, Sardanapalus

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

BERTOLT BRECHT, The Threepenny Opera

Misery knows none but equals.

PAUL HERVIEU, Les Tenailles

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

VICTOR HUGO, Les Misérables

Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.

JOHN KENDRICK BANGS, "The Spectre Cook of Bangletop"

Misery's fine -- as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

ARTHUR ADAMOV, Ping Pong

But misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.

WILLIAM COWPER, The Castaway


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