I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I’m living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.”*Fantine

If you are miserable you grow in misery and if you are joyful you grow in joy.

Ferranti’s thoughts had been his. As before he had understood his remorse so now he understood the mental chains that had imprisoned him. The poor wretch could not move. Misery had become apathy and apathy...

Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don’t intentionally go for dark.

Tavi spent an eternity in misery, longing for death to bring sweet release from the unrelenting torment. The others gathered at the side of his bunk on the ship, keeping a deathwatch over him.”I don’t...

That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul. People smuggled pirated copies of the film from Pakistan- sometimes in their underwear. After curfew, everyone locked their doors, turned out the lights, turned down the volume, and reaped...

When a fine old carpet is eaten by mice, the colors and patterns of what’s left behind do not change,’ wrote my neighbor and friend, the poet Jane Hirschfield, after she visited an old friend...

Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for the health of one who is...

La verdad no es realmente más extraña que la ficción, digan lo que digan. La mayoria de la veces uno sabe exactamente como van a salir las cosas.-Paul

Dwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present.

Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.

There is winning and there is misery.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

To be surrounded by sixty people who make your life miserable is to be at a family reunion. But to be surrounded by 600,000 people who make the whole world miserable is to live in...

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

Why do we come to the world, only to suffer and depart? This is a unsolved misery.

It’d felt good to be part of an “us,” with the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same miseries.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

Frequently, people confront us who seemed to be egging the world into calling them on their miserable actions so they can have the pleasure of angry vengeance or an excuse to attract attention. Our compassion...

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

I’ve been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount...

When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust’s reply was ‘To be separated from Mama.’) I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be...

Scholars and enlightened always want to define the differences between communism, socialism, fascism and other economic or political systems. It really doesn’t matter to those who are subjected to those societies how someone has articulated...

All that hatred down there,” he said, “all that hatred and misery and love. It’s a wonder it doesn’t blow the avenue apart.

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

She is a compassionate Amazon forming a muse from misery, full of graphic words, she doesn’t hide, she speaks, she writes, she uses words that individualise her, she goes deeper and people cannot grasp her,...

Men in the vehement pursuit of happiness grasp at the first object which offers to them any prospect of satisfaction, but immediately they turn an introspective eye and ask, ‘Am I happy?’ and at once...

If no war in heaven, then defeat ain’t misery.

Evangeline’s obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused misery.

Hold it right there. The only agreement we ever had was that you intended to make me as miserable as possible, and I intended to courageously make the best of an intolerable situation like valiant...

It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts,...

If I have become my father, then I shall have my father’s blade. Thorn is my dragon, and a thorn he shall be to all enemies. It is only right, then, that I should wield...

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your...

Misery and poverty of a nation is associated with the conscious of its people not leaders.

Your misery and hate will kill us all Black Parade

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

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

Cómo lucha por escapar. Igual que nosotros, Paul, igual… Creemos que sabemos mucho, pero en realidad no sabemos más que una rata en una trampa, una rata con la espalda rota que aún cree que...

The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations into a cycle of misery.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm.

Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, –will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, –or...

If peace comes from seeing the whole,then misery stems from a loss of perspective.We begin so aware and grateful. The sun somehow hangs there in the sky. The little bird sings. The miracle of life...

There is no need returning anger to those who made your past horrible, do not think of making them feel bitter, maybe a help from you can just make them ashame and miserable, and can...

Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful, cheerful thought in the world will fix it. So let me cry awhile....