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"Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends." »Erica Jong
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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
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"Hope is the nurse of misery." »American Proverb
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"misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows." »William Shakespeare
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"It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery." »Publilius Syrus
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"Human misery is too great for men to do without faith." »Heinrich Heine
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"Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery." »Matthew Arnold
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"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher." »Victor Hugo
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"Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery." »Matthew Arnold
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"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon." »Woody Allen
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"Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief." »R Chamberlain
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"Puritanism...helps us enjoy our misery while we are inflicting it on others." »Marcel Ophuls
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"misery is when you make your bed and then your mother tells you it's the day she's changing the sheets." »Suzanne Heller
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"misery is when grown-ups don't realize how miserable kids can feel." »Suzanne Heller
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"misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it." »Russell Baker
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"A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer." »Joseph Addison
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"A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer." »Joseph Addison
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"There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery." »Dante Alighieri
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"There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery." »Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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"The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances." »Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
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"If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." »Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
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"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." »Charles Robert Darwin
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"Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly." »Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy
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"No one and nothing outside of you can give you salvation, or free you from the misery. You have to light your own lamp. You have to know the miniature universe that you yourself are." »Banani Ray
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"There is no greater grief in misery than to turn our thoughts back to happier times.*" »Dante
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"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief." »Joseph Addison, (1672-1719)
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"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief." »Joseph Addison
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"Fair words without good deeds to a man in misery are like a saddle of gold clapped upon a galled horse." »Chamberlain
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"The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them." »Gunnar Myrdal
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