Cycles Quote by Akkineni Nagarjuna

Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.

— Laozi

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

— Simone Weil

All the joy the world contains Has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains Has come through wanting pleasure…

— Shantideva

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

— Cesare Pavese

“Life is not misery, It was made misery by misery people”

— Jerin.N

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

— L. Frank Baum

All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others.

— Shantideva

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

— John Dryden

“Like most misery, it started with an apparent happiness”

— Markus Zusak

“Misery develops in the insidious seams created by imprecision and faulty human thinking. The cure for unhappiness is finding joy by embracing human nature.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.

— Horace Walpole

What is misery? Not realizing your misery and mistaking it for happiness, I think

— Tsukihime