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• The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Misery, Child

• Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

  Erica Jong

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Friends, Misery

• Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

  Euripides

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Misery

• Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man’s restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

  Ralph Steadman

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  Tags in Misery

• Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

  Evo Morales

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  Tags in Globalization, Economic, Misery

• Misery is a match that never goes out.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

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  Tags in Misery, Match

• To do art, one thing should always remember – subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

  Zhang Yimou

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  Tags in Misery, Meanings

• Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

  C. S. Lewis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reflection, Misery, Shadow, Speak, Miscellaneous

• Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

  Russell Baker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Misery, Longer, Company

• Misery’s fine – as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

  Arthur Adamov

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Misery, Want, Get, Out, Fine, Know, Long

• It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

  William Cobbett

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Misery, Reach

• As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

  Blaise Pascal

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  Tags in Misery, Heads, Ignorance

• He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

  Thomas Gray

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  Tags in Misery, Tear

• When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in God

  Tags in Misery, Want, Understanding, Bring

• Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Topics in Art, Soul

  Tags in Misery, Wing

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

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Misery, Spirit

• 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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Misery, Pain, Help, Feel, Personal

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

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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  Tags in Misery, Fortune

• The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

  Quintilian

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  Tags in Misery, Prosperity

• Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

  Bertrand Russell

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  Tags in Extremism, Misery, Hope