Certainty Quote by Samuel Johnson

Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil…

— Phineas Quimby

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

— Ramana Maharshi

Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the…

— Samuel Johnson

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

— Juan Rulfo

Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

— Lester Levenson

There is neither happiness nor misery in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has…

— Alexandre Dumas - (Count Of Monte Cristo

I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.

— Horace Walpole

I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.

— Ian Bogost

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

— Anonymous

How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?

— Theodore Dalrymple

“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

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

— Virginia Satir