There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“If you want to guarantee yourself a life of misery, marry somebody with the idea of changing them” — Peter Bevelin Copy Share Image
Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“If I do catch sight of my heart, I'm going to strangle the thing just to put it out of its misery.” — P. B. Kerr Copy Share Image
At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There are men who work hard, digging for gold: he worked hard, digging for pity. The misery of the world was his… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with… — Lynn Freed Copy Share Image
“The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Those were the three words seldom asked to her. Yet, she knew they hold a healing power in them; For they bring… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“Ross said: “I’ll tell you what is best for the other man, always, and that’s work. Work is a challenge. I’ve told… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
“I have been in my bed for five weeks, oppressed with weakness and other infirmities from which my age, seventy four years,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We come together only to go apart again. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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