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title: "10 World Miserable Quotes by 10 authors"
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> [“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/if-what-you-have-seems-insufficient-to-you-then-though-you-possess/)

[Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/)

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> [The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-farmer/the-world-is-full-of-miserable-places-one-way-of-living-comfortably/)

[Paul Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-farmer/)

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> [The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-chandler/the-more-you-make-this-world-about-you-the-more-miserable-you-will-be/)

[Matt Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-chandler/)

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> [Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-lenz/very-few-people-are-happy-in-this-world-most-are-miserable-even-in/)

[Frederick Lenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-lenz/)

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> [“To be surrounded by sixty people who make your life miserable is to be at a family reunion. But to be surrounded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jarod-kintz/to-be-surrounded-by-sixty-people-who-make-your-life-miserable-is-to/)

[Jarod Kintz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jarod-kintz/)

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> [“Of all the people in the world who have miserable lives - and, as I'm sure you know, there are quite a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lemony-snicket/of-all-the-people-in-the-world-who-have-miserable-lives-and-as-i-m/)

[Lemony Snicket](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lemony-snicket/)

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> [As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/as-the-faculty-of-writing-has-chiefly-been-a-masculine-endowment-the/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [We didn't have any solution to the world's problems. I mean, we were trying to grow up in a socialist way to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-strummer/we-didn-t-have-any-solution-to-the-world-s-problems-i-mean-we-were/)

[Joe Strummer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-strummer/)

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> [This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/this-is-a-common-experience-in-my-traveling-i-plod-along-thinking/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [“The world was already a miserable place in the spring of that cursed year. The New Depression was at its height. Stocks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-e-knight/the-world-was-already-a-miserable-place-in-the-spring-of-that-cursed/)

[E.E. Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-e-knight/)

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