Quote by Lemony Snicket

“they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“It wasn't that they were unpleasant people; indeed, they were the sweetest things ever; they just enjoyed melancholy and seemed to take heart and…

— Howard Fast

“They were not unfortunate girls who, as outcasts or in the belief that they were cast out by society, grieved wholesomely and intensely and,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Gloom, despair, and agony on me. Deep, dark depression, excessive misery. If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.”

— Susan Heather

“The pair of them were again in the eye of a storm of misery - their world was a storm of misery and they…

— Laini Taylor

“But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured.…

— Charles Dickens

“There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory,…

— Charles Bukowski

“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

“Misery was a creeping thing, like the dew settling on grass or the cold fingers of frost meeting me in my bed at night…

— Kat Dunn

“They are not sorrows, so much as terrible things.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Eccentrics with unseeing eyes glided through, savouring amid so much society their own particular loneliness and private sins and sorrows.”

— Iris Murdoch

“There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.”

— Haruki Murakami