What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on…

“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery? We are not formed for enjoyment; and,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

— Leonardo Padura

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

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

— Frederic S. Durbin

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

— Annie Proulx

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

Now look at the pain & misery it cause you

— Taylor

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

Another step had her backed up against the wall, and he braced his arms on both sides of her. "I'm beginning to look forward…

— Johanna Lindsey

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

“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

we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been…

— Maude Royden

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

— Abhijit Naskar

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