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title: "8 Pain Misery Quotes by 8 authors"
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> [I'm here to be lovesick, broke and drifting, writing heartache songs and singing about pain and misery and depression, with a few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-williams-iii/i-m-here-to-be-lovesick-broke-and-drifting-writing-heartache-songs/)

[Hank Williams III](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-williams-iii/)

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> [There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/czeslaw-milosz/there-was-a-time-when-only-wise-books-were-read-helping-us-to-bear/)

[Czeslaw Milosz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/czeslaw-milosz/)

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> [“since pain and misery are among the few things that, when shared, always multiply. The”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-padura/since-pain-and-misery-are-among-the-few-things-that-when-shared/)

[Leonardo Padura](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-padura/)

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> [“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-shelley/what-is-there-in-our-nature-that-is-for-ever-urging-us-on-towards-2/)

[Mary Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-shelley/)

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> [Now look at the pain & misery it cause you](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/taylor/now-look-at-the-pain-misery-it-cause-you/)

[Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/taylor/)

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> [No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/no-man-who-believes-that-all-is-for-the-best-in-this-suffering-world/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-proulx/and-it-may-be-that-love-sometimes-occurs-without-pain-or-misery/)

[Annie Proulx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-proulx/)

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> [“We can't avoid pain, but misery is always a choice.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-s-durbin/we-can-t-avoid-pain-but-misery-is-always-a-choice/)

[Frederic S. Durbin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-s-durbin/)

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