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“When we our betters see bearing our woes,We scarcely think our miseries our foes.”
“He is wretched indeed, who goes up and down in the world, without a God to take care of him, to be his guide and protector, and to bless him in his affairs [. . .] That unconverted men are without ...”
“A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.”
“But then he returned and our life went on. Three days gone. A week. I measured the time in the faint waning of my consciousness of my misery, and wondered if this would one day be enough: simply no...”
“From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.”
“I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that's how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat literatu...”
“Man cannot cherish his existence any longer than life holds out charms to him: when he is wrought upon by painful sensations, or drawn by contrary impulsions, his natural tendency is deranged; he i...”
“It was never for you, Annie, or all the other people out there who sign their letters Your number-one fan. The minute you start to write all those people are at the other end of the galaxy, or some...”
“I'm awful at hiding it when I'm miserable. Sometimes I think if I were better at it maybe I'd be able to fool myself. Trick the misery right out of me.”
“My daughter showed us the key: misery gives way to fun when you take an object, event, situation, or scenario that wasn't designed for you, that isn't invested in you, that isn't concerned in the s...”
“If Iona's heart were to burst and his misery to flow out, it would flood the whole world, it seems, but yet it is not seen. It has found a hiding-place in such an insignificant shell that one would...”
“Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.”
“...the pleasure of finally making a clean break into misery after always dangling above it's canyon...”
“And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.”
“People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.”
“I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.”
“He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words.”
“All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissolu...”
“We see her go through dangerous mood-swings, but I tried never to come right out and say "Annie was depressed and possibly suicidal that day" or "Annie seemed particularly happy that day."If I have...”
“Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.”
