Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's…

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

— Iris Murdoch

Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really is. We're…

— Leo Buscaglia

But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their stoicism and…

— Peter Cosgrove

“It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here…

— Cynthia Ozick

There is neither happiness nor misery in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has…

— Alexandre Dumas - (Count Of Monte Cristo

The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a…

— Arthur Koestler

“Gloom, despair, and agony on me. Deep, dark depression, excessive misery. If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.”

— Susan Heather

“I can understand the ignorant masses loving to soak themselves in drink—oh, yes, it's very shocking that they should, of course—very shocking to us…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things…

— Philip Sidney

That is Buddha's meaning of nirvana: to be free from life and death, to be free from desire. The moment you are free from…

— 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