Misery offers; society accepts

“A soul for a piece of bread. Misery makes the offer; society accepts.”

— Victor Hugo

It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It…

— Masiela Lusha

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

— Kesha

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding…

— Brad Warner

“Injustice had made her sulle, and misery had made her ugly.”

— Victor Hugo

“This barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound of ideas…

— Victor Hugo

“Common right is nought but the protection of all radiating over the right of each. This protection of all is termed Fraternity. The point…

— Victor Hugo

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