Air Quote by George Eliot

Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the…

— Xunzi

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

— Iris Murdoch

Misery is when grown-ups don't realize how miserable kids can feel.

— Suzanne Heller

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

— Tsukihime

“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

There is always some kind of misery when you are happy and always some kind of happiness even when you are miserable

— Nidhi Saini

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things…

— Anonymous

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others,…

— John Ruskin

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

— Laozi

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

— Jerin.N

The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and…

— Marc Maron

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

— Boethius