Quote by Iris Murdoch

“I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I…

— Anne Frank

“Misery needed to believe in a better future.”

— Michael Grant

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”

— Bret Easton Ellis

“What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self?”

— Henry James

“Or / privately with you, when we’re watching television and everyone else can be depressed as rotten logs for all we care, because various…

— Jack Underwood

“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Sometimes a tragedy sends us down the path we’re supposed to be on so we can find what we’re meant to find. It isn’t…

— AnnaLisa Grant

“It's about not taking things personally. Even when you feel the world is crumbling around you. It's about choosing happiness over suffering. It's about…

— Laura Munson

“There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.”

— Floriano Martins

“I can't help thinking -- Suppose the world was made for happiness after all.”

— Elizabeth Bowen

“It’s the only thing that keeps us from despair when we look at what humans have done to the world.”

— Rick Riordan

“I should have known that I wasn't meant for happiness and a life of ease. I have other work to do in the world.”

— W. Somerset Maugham