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• The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

  John Fowles

  Century, Lack Of Time

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

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• You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

  Brooke Shields

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• I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Earth, Conformity

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• To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

  Zhang Yimou

  Art, People, Remember

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• May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

  Robertson Davies

  Sad, Depression, Writing

  Robertson Davies (1999). “"For Your Eye Alone": Letters 1976-1995”, McClelland & Stewart

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• It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.

  Christine Keeler

  Christine

  "The lady's not a tramp" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2001.

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• The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wretched

  "Hercules Œtæus", 754, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 517-18, 1922.

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• Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day

  Gifford Pinchot

  Pay The Price, Practice, Aggravation

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• Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.

  Margaret Atwood

  Regret, Loss, Journey

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very ways of misery will divide, and become to us a wall, on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows before our eyes and we land safe on the opposite sore.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Wall, Humility, Eye

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• Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Nature, Believe, Ignorance

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• I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

  Anne Frank

  Peace, Thinking, Confusion

  "Selling the Holocaust: From Auschwitz to Schindler". Book by Tim Cole, p.35, 2000.

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• At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

  Nigella Lawson

  Anxiety, Literature, Overwhelmed

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• There is winning and there is misery.

  Bill Parcells

  Sports, Winning, Nfl

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• Misery is the company of lawsuits.

  Francois Rabelais

  Feet, Company, Lawsuit

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• Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hope, Born, Extremes

  "Unpopular Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell, Chapter 3: The Future of Mankind (p. 36), 1950.

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• Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Pain, Lying, Hard Times

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

  Anthony Trollope

  Literature, Poverty, Should

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Macdermots of Ballycloran: Trollope's Works”, p.81, 谷月社

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• Ecstasy is our very nature, not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That's why you look so tired, because misery is real hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against the nature.

  Rajneesh

  Hard Work, Tired, People

  "The Book of Wisdom". Book by Osho, 1983.

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• Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Beauty, Apology

  1977 How To SaveYour Own Life.

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• More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

  Thomas Traherne

  Happiness, Misery And Pain, Doe

  Thomas Traherne, Bertram Dobell (1908). “Centuries of Meditations, by Thomas Traherne (1636-1674) Now First Printed Frome the Author”

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• Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

  Montgomery Clift

  Failure, Creativity, Artist

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• Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

  Gates McFadden

  Television, Information, Life Is

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• Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

  Philip Larkin

  Kids, Men, Hands

  High Windows (1974) "This Be The Verse"

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• I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

  Juan Rulfo

  Talking, Implications

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