Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.

...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.

The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.

There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.

Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.

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