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...

We wanted more than anything else in the world to be normal, but we failed.” The 1960’s and 1970’s were very strange times, but Mandy missed it all, she missed the days when Super-8 was...

Pain and misery are two different words, which both hurt.

But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That’s what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana’s funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really...

Lucrurile supreme trebuie să aibă o altă origine, una proprie lor, – ele nu ar putea lua naştere din această lume efemeră, înşelătoare, iluzorie şi mizeră, din această harababură de amăgiri şi pofte!

The AristocratThe Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stayAt his little place at What’sitsname (it isn’t far away).They say the sport is splendid; there is always something new,And fairy scenes, and fearful...

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

Stephanie had been raped, beaten and left for dead on the Atlantic City Boardwalk several times. You’d think she would have hit rock bottom after those experiences. But no. None of that made her quit....

It has taken me four years to figure this out.If we live long enough, we all will experience this.Don’t ever predetermine how you think that you should feel on an anniversary of a tragic event...

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery

Un hombre valiente podía pensar. Un cobarde, no.

The art of our necessities is strangeThat can make vile things precious.

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.