I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.
He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off. But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.
Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune from all anger, I never feel angry. If am immune from all hatred, I never feel hatred.
Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.
I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.
Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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.
Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.
What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?
Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.
If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.
Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.
Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.
Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.