I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one,” he said. “Life can be difficult for everyone,” she replied. “Misery makes no distinction between prince and pauper.
I felt someone should personally thank every rock out there for the human misery it had absorbed. We should kiss them one by one & say, we are sorry, but something strong & lasting had to do this for May, & you are the chosen ones. God bless your rock hearts.
Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.
A Prayer Refuse to fall down If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down. If you cannot refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven, and like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this, is not yet listening.
Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons. . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery. . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.
If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.
Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery. '
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
How we are born to invent our own miseries!
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.
Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.
But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.
The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
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.