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.
Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.
The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.
I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.
Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.
Ellen: I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.
Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.
Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.
The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.
