Distress Quote by J.R. Ward

“[...] [T]here was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.”

— J.R. Ward

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

— Mitch Albom

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

— George Eliot

“The difference between misery and happiness was the right word from her.”

— Joe Abercrombie

She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own…

— Paulo Coelho

“Human misery was the trough from which she now fed herself and she felt more comfortable in the presence of other unlucky people. It…

— Andrew Neiderman

She can't hold her own! Who would have known! She is misery's company! She's got no place to go! No place to call home!…

— Anonymous

“...misery had her dwelling in my heart...”

— Mary Shelley

“Most of the misery had been generated by her conventional aspect, and not by her innate sensations.”

— Thomas Hardy

To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for…

— Henry James

“misery made me unjust to you.”

— Honoré de Balzac

She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place…

— Lurlene McDaniel