What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep? — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Happy people find a way to live with their problems, and miserable people let their problems stop them from living. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in… — Terry Hayes Copy Share Image
Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too… — Paul Hamilton Hayne Copy Share Image
“The agonizing flames of misery can turn the human heart inside your skull into a breeding ground for virtues.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering,… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.” — Stefanos Livos Copy Share Image
I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,'… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
“I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys. — Georg Ebers Copy Share Image
Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
