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

You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.

He’s not dead.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person’s habitual misery.

Pain and suffering are inevitable in our lives, but misery is an option

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you’ve made is worth the misery of having to review it.

He is wretched indeed, who goes up and down in the world, without a God to take care of him, to be his guide and protector, and to bless him in his affairs [. ....

Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there?Should he not seek his own country?His miseries are his ally; they urge him on. Let them grow, if need be. But do not forsake the...

There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

If there’s one thing I’ve discovered, it’s that stifling yourself will only lead to more misery. […] I polluted all other happiness because I was afraid to let myself create and change. You have to...

Están un poco usados, pero es señal de que un libro ha sido leído y amado, ,no es así? – Annie

When we our betters see bearing our woes,We scarcely think our miseries our foes.

The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.

And now I’m right back where I started. Sober and miserable.

It’s my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with their own immature, insecure, self pitying self is its own revenge. Their existence...

In every circumstance, always remember that you can only be as happy or miserable as you repeatedly interpret your life to be.

Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind all ugliness.We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which it must travel. In spite...

Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared...

The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by...

Rainy, gloomy, drab, sunless day. There are times when hope seems entirely clouded over; when looking for the blessings in your circumstances feels like trying to catch a ray of sunshine from six feet under.

It was clear to her now, Happiness was a seductive illusion. No one as fucked up as her deserved one drop of joy. But oh god was it delicious when it fell into her lap...

When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only with the Divine, not with anyone else, as that will only increase the...

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

I had a dream about you. You brought me coffee. I brought you misery. It was Starbucks’ coffee, so I thought it was a fair trade.

A staggering amount of people blame their lives for their miseries, but little do they know that one’s repeated interpretations of one’s life create one’s constant feelings.

If religion has nothing to do with poverty and misery; then why the Muslims are the largest charity takers of the world

One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression. It’s not like if you’re in Los Angeles, where everyone’s so actively working on cheerfulness and mental and...

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

What rent do you pay here?” I inquired. “I don’t know,—what is it, Sam?” “All we make,” answered Sam. It is a depressing place,—bare, unshaded, with no charm of past association, only a memory of...

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

For it is discomfort’s own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the very pain of the misery, and yet to be unable to...

I could see it on the faces of people as they passed. I would smile to share my joy, but it was AS IF I upset them with my happiness. In Confusion they would reply...

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery

Né avec une me habituelle, j’en ai demandé une autre à la musique : ce fut le début de malheurs inespérés.

You can share in my joy, but I don’t want to share my misery. No, I want to give away my misery. Go ahead, take it all.

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to...

Past memories strobed before him, flashes of joy blackened by the present. Reality teased, then beckoned, home likewise. Confusion dimmed, the answer clear. This could end. Would end. In one of two ways. Still he...

…But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much...

Frugality is misery in disguise

I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.

For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, with no end in sight. The water falls , drop after drop after drop, like...

Because we are always growing, life compounds and magnifies what is already in us. If you are miserable you grow in misery and if you are joyful you grow in joy. This makes self-love is...

Civilized misery is the worst misery. – Hilary Craven, Pg. 33

But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by revealing sin in its true character-by demonstrating that its sure result is misery and death.

The land of failure and misery isn’t where you temporarily or permanently belong. You are a royal child of God, and definitely have a specially reserved place in the territory of success and happiness.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source...

Shall each man,” cried he, “find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. Man!...