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Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.
I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.
Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.
The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.
Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.
All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him
The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.
frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.
The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
'Misery' left a lasting mark on me. When I die, it will be 'Kathy 'Misery' Bates Is Dead.'
God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.
In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.
You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it.
What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.
So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.
There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.
When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.
A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.
A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me.
Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.
It's time to recognize that the EU is beyond reform and deserves to be put out of its misery.
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.
I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.