Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore DreiserFriendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
Margaret DrabbleAll ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad