Chains Quote by Epictetus

If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.

— Al Smith

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will…

— Bill Burr

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one…

— Abraham Lincoln

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness

— Charles Dickens

“If one starts to wonder why one has to go through painful events and then laments about one’s fate, then what comes out of…

— Ryōjun Shionuma

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

— Jane Austen

As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything.

— John Candy

“Therefore when we are afflicted and disciplined, our heart must be aroused against the feeling of evil, and we must say (cf. Ps. 118:17):…

— Martin Luther

“Lament is missional because it keeps the world before God, and it draws God into the world – with the longing that God should…

— Christopher J.H. Wright

You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the…

— Stephen King

The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a…

— Douglas Fairbanks

I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it…

— Charlotte Bronte