We can't avoid pain, but misery is always a choice.

There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is not quite…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“since pain and misery are among the few things that, when shared, always multiply. The”

— Leonardo Padura

“Pain is inevitable, but misery is a choice,”

— Catherine Leggitt

Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.

— Christopher Reeve

Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.

— Ann Landers

And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

— Annie Proulx

I'm here to be lovesick, broke and drifting, writing heartache songs and singing about pain and misery and depression, with a few good times…

— Hank Williams III

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Mary Shelley

Now look at the pain & misery it cause you

— Taylor

“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

You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.

— Ravi Zacharias

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we…

— Florynce Kennedy

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from…

— R. D. Laing

“They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too…

— Bronnie Ware