A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Each time we make a choice we are either moving toward freedom and prosperity or bondage and misery.

When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own.

That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.

It'd felt good to be part of an "us," with the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same miseries.

Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.

The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.

The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light.

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.