I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother’s death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her...

Some kinds of misery make you hate the world, but some kinds make you hate yourself, and–butter and cheese not withstanding–Neve had no question that Spear was the latter.

…falling in love is a state of mental misery which has a restricting, impoverishing, and paralyzing effect upon the development of our consciousness.

A few years ago I spent Christmas and New Years alone. No family. No friends. No gifts. A little tree with some lights on it. A small Christmas dinner (in a can). Far from home...

¡Ay mísero de mí, y ay infelice!Apurar, cielos, pretendo,ya que me tratáis así,qué delito cometícontra vosotros naciendo.Aunque si nací, ya entiendoqué delito he cometido;bastante causa ha tenidovuestra justicia y rigor,pues el delito mayordel hombre es...

Then he took the pages, smoothed them with the palm of his hand, and fixed them with pins to the walls. So that now, if he sat looking down upon Grape Street, the letters and...

In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed for the son she bore;And standing hills, long to remain,Shared their short-lived comrade’s pain.And bound for the same...

For a few minutes the anxiety that tormented him had vanished, leaving his mind as serene as the beauty he looked at. Very lovely, he thought, are the sudden moments of relief that come in...

My life’s misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor.

As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of orgasm of negativity.’… The Brits don’t merely enjoy misery, they get...

The next day he woke up feeling like he’d been unshackled from his fat, like he’d been washed clean from his misery, and for a long time he couldn’t remember why he felt this way,...

… when she called to mind all this utter and crushing misery that had come upon my aunts’ old music-master, she was moved to very real grief, and shuddered to think of that other grief,...

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

If that type of bad God did exist, then we could go on living in good health. If we could push the responsibility for our misery onto God, then we would have that much more...

Se había perdido para siempre en el mundo del olvido

These are slum kids, I was a slum kid. Everybody talks like that.

Misery’s fine – as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

Maybe awful things is how God speaks to us, Vernon thought, trudging up the lightless tunnel. Maybe folks don’t trust in good things no more. Maybe awful things is all God’s got to remind us...

I have learned that trying to control other people’s opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness.

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just bought you a cake, you’d better think twice before devouring your misery.

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Misery makes no distinction between prince and pauper.

She gave him a strange maternal grin.For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am introuble here. This woman is not right.

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again.

It never took her long to darken any conversation, as from birth she was inclined to see misery in each and every story, and to fabricate some when there was none.

Have you ever wonder about the misery of sleep?

Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all...

A man’s subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and...

Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently suffered.

The very same thing, don’t you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things...

I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that’s how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat...

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.