There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Misery is a match that never goes out.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
~By Alexander Smith ~
I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.
~By Jon Crosby ~
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
~By Addison Mizner ~
My life has run from misery to happiness.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
~By Jean Racine ~
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
~By Josh Billings ~
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
~By Nigella Lawson ~
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.
~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
~By Jane Austen ~
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
Misery is a communicable disease.
~By Martha Graham ~
People in misery is what most important in art.
~By Zhang Yimou ~
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.
~By Nagarjuna ~
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
~By Francois Fenelon ~
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.
~By Gifford Pinchot ~
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
~By Anne Frank ~
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
~By Victor Cousin ~
They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.
~By Stephen Phillips ~
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
~By Montgomery Clift ~
Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
~By Anne Frank ~
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
~By Karl Amadeus Hartmann ~
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
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.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
~By Thomas Otway ~
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
~By Martha Washington ~
He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
~By Thomas Gray ~
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
~By Edvard Munch ~
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.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
~By Francis Picabia ~
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
~By Samuel Daniel ~
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
~By Thomas Malthus ~
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
I am talking about misery and all of its implications.
~By Juan Rulfo ~
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
~By Michael Harrington ~
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.
~By Paul Merton ~
Misery loves company.
~By John Ray ~
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
~By Saint Augustine ~
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
~By Boethius ~
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
~By John Calvin ~
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
~By Madalyn Murray O'Hair ~
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.
~By Larry David ~
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.
~By Robertson Davies ~
Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
~By Arthur Adamov ~
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
~By William Glasser ~
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
~By George Mason ~
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
~By Duke of Wellington ~
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
~By Zhang Yimou ~
When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
~By William Cobbett ~
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.
~By Philip Larkin ~
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
~By Theodore Dreiser ~
So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.
~By Emily Mortimer ~
You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.
~By Gordon Parks ~
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
~By Martha Washington ~
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
~By Red Skelton ~
It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.
~By Christine Keeler ~
The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.
~By Omar Bongo ~
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
~By Aeschylus ~
It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
~By Luigi Pirandello ~
Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.
~By Georges Duhamel ~
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.
~By Erica Jong ~
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
~By Albert Camus ~
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.
~By John Fowles ~
You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.
~By Brooke Shields ~
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
~By Russell Baker ~
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
~By Anne Frank ~
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
~By Margaret Drabble ~
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
~By Spike Milligan ~
To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.
~By Denis Kearney ~
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
~By Allen Toussaint ~
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
~By Dennis Prager ~
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
~By Ralph Steadman ~
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
~By Euripides ~
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
~By Louis Mumford ~
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
~By Joseph Addison ~
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