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In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
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.
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.
BERTOLT BRECHT, The Threepenny Opera
God, wishing His elect to realize their own misery, often temporarily withdraws His favours: no more is needed to prove to us in a very short time what we really are.
TERESA OF AVILA, The Interior Castle
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"
What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?
TERESA OF AVILA, The Interior Castle
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
Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.
ARTHUR LYNCH, Moods of Life
It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
GEORGE ELIOT, Silas Marner
We are apt to measure the happiness or misery of the world by that portion of either which has fallen to our lot.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
- It is because of their corrupt thoughts
- That creatures go to Misery.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA, Iti-Vuttaka
Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, Thoughts on Art and Life
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