Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.
Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
People in misery is what most important in art.
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
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.
What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery.
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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