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

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....

Those of us who have the luck to enjoy good health forget about this vast parallel universe of the unwell-their daily miseries, their banal ordeals. Only when you cross that frontier into the world of...

The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.

When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.

Each time we make a choice we are either moving toward freedom and prosperity or bondage and misery.

I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody left on the face of the earth, either friend or relative, who knew...

Pero me sobran motivos para ser feliz. Sobre todo cuando estoy en los brazos de mis tres misses. Son tres gentiles damas a las que se llega cuando las cosas adquieren una claridad inusitada: Miss...

It is your sole responsibility to protect your peace of mind at all times. Don’t allow miserable people to steal your joy. Many of them hate to see others happy and doing well. A lot...

Thus God’s work and His eyes are in the depths, but man’s only in the height.

They don’t know I only speak in runaway train stationsand everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.No one has ever gotten the chance to get too closebecause it is never romantic...

I am the most miserable person who ever lived,” he said… “You are young, and in love,” said Primus. “Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

Obsessing over something that has jarred your world is called coping.

The best remedy for people who have become your headache is to take a ‘chill pill’ from your willingness to endure their misery.

When that bastard calls back, you tell him he’s won this round. I’ll marry him. But I don’t take well to being blackmailed, and tell him I intend to spend the rest of my life...

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

I don’t reckon misery loves any damn thing at all.

I am glad you are happy–but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never...

The only way past the pain is through it. Pain, grief, anger, misery…they don’t go away–they just increase and compound and get worse. You have to live through them, acknowledge them. You have to give...

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years’ War.

Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim.

Misery can only be quelled but never cured.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.