There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the…

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

— Richard Louv

I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I spend more…

— Heidi Julavits

Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet.

— George Carlin

“It terrified me, right down to my very core, to be alive while the rest of the world was dead.”

— Emily Goodwin

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery,…

— Cesare Pavese

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the…

— Luther Burbank

Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I am keenly…

— Malika Oufkir

The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be…

— Napoleon Hill

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Money can't buy happiness. But it sure makes misery easier to live with.

— Anonymous

There's never any ebb in human misery.

— Lynn Nottage

“I hereby propose the term “miserize”, as a verb for misery – referring to “to cause misery”.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Where there is doubt (shanka), there is misery. The moment one begins to doubt the knowledge that, 'I am Chandubhai,' misery arises. Once one…

— Dada Bhagwan

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,…

— Joseph Addison

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted…

— Camille Paglia