72 quotes found
“There is no Mystery so great as Misery.”
“Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.”
“And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.”
“I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.”
“When we our betters see bearing our woes,We scarcely think our miseries our foes.”
“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...”
“He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words.”
“The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragica...”
“Those of us who have the luck to enjoy good health forget about this vast parallel universe of the unwell-their daily miseries, their banal ordeals. Only when you cross that frontier into the world...”
“What rent do you pay here?" I inquired. "I don’t know,—what is it, Sam?" "All we make," answered Sam. It is a depressing place,—bare, unshaded, with no charm of past association, only a memory of f...”
“Then he took the pages, smoothed them with the palm of his hand, and fixed them with pins to the walls. So that now, if he sat looking down upon Grape Street, the letters and images encircled him. ...”
“Fire tries gold misery tries brave men.”
