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

Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries

An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so...

I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium for all this misery.

Misery will never be your destiny. Your mind deserves joy in abundance, but it’s your responsibility to constantly feed the right words and beliefs to it.

Anesthesia was discovered. Do you know what it means to relieve man of his pain and suffering? Anesthesia is the most humane of all of man’s accomplishments, and what a merciful accomplishment it was. For...

No one can usurp the heights…But those to whom the miseries of the worldAre misery, and will not let them rest.

What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?

Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss.

But then he returned and our life went on. Three days gone. A week. I measured the time in the faint waning of my consciousness of my misery, and wondered if this would one day...

Joy come and go like pleasant breeze. It’s the miseries that stick in you like thorns – until you realize that it’s all your doing.

Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.

All the stress and misery of life comes from fear of loss. Remember that you can never lose anything without gaining something. To avoid misery, concentrate on what you will gain.

Some people create war and misery, some create wealth and money, and some create ideas and art. But we all create our own deaths, fashioned out of our lives. Nobody will remember how you died,...

Nobody wants to be alone in misery. Cara experienced no shame in admitting that need. Not only did she not want to suffer alone, she demanded co-suffering from all who dared love her.

Religion starts with desolation and ends with misery.

My misery was too deep to speak any more. I scanned the page; I was having trouble breathing, as though the oxygen were leaving the room. Amid its devastation my mind flashed from thought to...

I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have...

That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.

There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.

Stone me, what a life!

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...