misery Quotes

“HAPPINESS, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows.”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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“I am malicious because I am miserable.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“It is vain to recount further the catalogue of miseries. In earlier ages such horrors remain unknown because unrecorded. Just enough flickering light plays upon this infernal scene to give us the sense of its utter desolation and hopeless...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

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“he who sings scares away his woes.”

― Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

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“But kings and mightiest potentates must die, for that's the end of human misery.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

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“There is a way out of a forest, there is none out of a cloister; a man is free in the forest but he is a slave in the cloister. It may well be that greater strength of character is needed for standing up to solitude than to poverty, for if...”

― Denis Diderot, The Nun

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“Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt, since riches point to misery and contempt?”

― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

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“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.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, Is full of misery.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

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