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“Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.”
“I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery.”
“We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same con...”
“No one can usurp the heights...But those to whom the miseries of the worldAre misery, and will not let them rest.”
“Misery will not come to the one who does not deceive his own Self. Miseries arise because one deceives ones own Self.”
“I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.”
“He finally pulled it all back into his heart, sucking in the painful tide of his misery.”
“i was a prisoner of events”
“There is no condition so miserable that thinking can't make it worse.”
“In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.”
“But where is the antidote for lucid despair, perfectly articulated, proud, and sure? All of us are miserable, but how many know it? The consciousness of misery is too serious a disease to figure in...”
“The best remedy for people who have become your headache is to take a 'chill pill' from your willingness to endure their misery.”
“A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.”
“Nobody wants to be alone in misery. Cara experienced no shame in admitting that need. Not only did she not want to suffer alone, she demanded co-suffering from all who dared love her.”
“There is no Mystery so great as Misery.”
“People are always ashamed of the misery that has befallen them, as though it were an act of divine retribution for a long-forgotten sin of theirs”
“There always are and always will be some strange personalities in our country, whatever the conditions, who though peaceful and not at all lazy will ever be beggars by some mysterious behest of des...”
“Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.”
“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.”
“When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only with the Divine, not with anyone else, as that will only increase the prob...”
