It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like the form in which it comes to you - it may be misery, struggle, starvation - but when you invite life, things begin to happen.
Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives in misery, which has led to violent confrontation throughout the century.
Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?
With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.
My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with. Filmmaking is hard and lonely and decidedly unglamorous. Find like-minded souls and share the joy and the misery.
When the soul, through its own fault. . . becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.
Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others
While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery. Through the collective, heroic efforts of countless men and women, victory was claimed over tyranny and evil.
What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.