What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
I don't reckon misery loves any damn thing at all.
I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.
What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?
The false world is full of illusions and misery.
If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.
You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.
And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.
