Misery quotes
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"When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only with the Divine, not with anyone else, as that will only increase the problems. Share your joy with everyone. Listen to others; yet do not listen. If your mind gets stuck in their problems, not only are they miserable, but you also become miserable."
"Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism."
"Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time."
"Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery."
"The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight."
"The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune."
"The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows."
"Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery."
"Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!"
"Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty."
"What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven."
"Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery."
"Misery generates hate."
"Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation."
"Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom."
"Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves."
"So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery."
"All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true."
"Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness."
"I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him."
