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

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

There is darkness inside us all. It is true. Inside every human being there is a tremendous and powerful capacity to commit deeds of evil. A force with the power to hurt others, to further...

I have been in my bed for five weeks, oppressed with weakness and other infirmities from which my age, seventy four years, permits me not to hope release. Added to this (proh dolor! [O misery!])...

Once you are miserable you are miserable there’s no getting out of misery even if you’ll be succeeded to get out of it,once again it will hunt you down and conquer it will conquer your...

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

There’s actually a sort of comfort in the belief that things can only get worse. It gives one an appreciation for the here-and-now, knowing that each and every moment may be as good as its...

Don’t regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.

The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can’t keep digging to find the light.

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn’t enough for you.

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.

I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains

If happiness shouldn’t make you so miserable, misery shouldn’t make you so happy.

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

…to return to their ‘native soil,’ as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and...

Misery loves company.

(…) the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own to look back on happily. But when the illusion of absolute identity vanishes...

I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra

No misery compares to staring at a clear night’s sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever out of reach.

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope,...

You’re real though, at least that’s something,” Alecto pointed out, holding his hand out in front of her. Smiling miserably, Mandy took his hand in her own and sat there beside him quietly.

Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.

I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.

I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I’ve never been convinced that happiness...

She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down on their hands till their hands grow into feet; then lay their faces on...

What the government makes to make money is money. They make money by making money—literally printing it. While the private sector has to make money the hard way—by producing a good or service that others...

Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone’s misery is their own stupidity and laziness.

The greatest sorrow in the life of a peasant is that his donkey is lost. And the greatest happiness is that he finds it back.

And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.

—Me llamo Annie Wilkes, y soy…—Ya lo sé —la interrumpió—. Usted es mi fan número uno.

Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.

I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.Proverbs 31:7

It is wild out there — there’s a lot of misery on the weather map from coast to coast to coast. We’d sent out search parties looking for winter and we finally found it, and...

And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if only you put yourself out a bit… And you get carried away, you suffer so much from...

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it’s the gloom—the cold, dark air—that receives notice. We fail to see the miracle of raindrops through our own tears.

zoom lens effect,” in which the focus is entirely on oneself, to the exclusion of external considerations.

wars are fought so that peace can be achieved talk about irony

Laziness demands misery.

Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts.

Despite all the sadness, violence and misery, I still believe in universal peace, goodness, and beauty of humanity.

The ones who would push you to engage in negative activities are the same ones who would laugh at you if you are drowning in the pool of misery.

The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost of this dead god to frighten and enslave the masses of mankind. The...

We both know that I will not come. We both know that he won’t be in Canada. There will be another earthquake, another flood, another war, another reason to not go where we think we...

Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery.

There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied—who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach they would be happy....

Writers remember everything…especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he’ll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent...