misery Quotes

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

― Sophocles, Antigone

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“Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars

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“But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

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“To prevent the perpetuation of poverty is necessary if the benefits of machine production are to accrue in any degree to those most in need of them; but what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“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.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

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“He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with the one than happiness with the other.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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“Must it ever be thus,—that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery?”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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“The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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