Quotes About Misery

I wish I could have healed your misery, quenched your sorrow.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. we have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living.

I shall reply that I really do look upon him as one of Byron's heroes, whom misery has marked with a fatal brand; some Manfred, some Lara, some Werner, one of those wrecks, as it were, of some ancient family, who, disinherited of their patrimony, have achieved one by the force of their adventurous genius, which has placed them above the laws of society." "You

this is the secret of my conduct towards you. There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

After about ten minutes' silence, she suddenly said: "Is it true that you have seen much, travelled far, and suffered deeply?" "I have suffered deeply, madame," answered Monte Cristo. "But now you are happy?" "Doubtless," replied the Count, "since no one hears me complain." "And has your present happiness softened your heart?" "My present happiness equals my past misery," said the Count.

Ah! —dijo Montecristo—, es uno de los orgullos de nuestra pobre humanidad el creerse cada hombre más desgraciado que cualquier otro que gime y llora a su lado.

I have come from a planet called sorrow.

There is neither happiness nor misery in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Over the years I had grown attached to it, as men grow attached to their miseries and their burdens.

One's appreciation of meager comforts, it seems, depends on what misery one has gone through before getting them.

One's appreciation of meager comforts, it seems, depends on what misery one has gone through before getting them.

I am bored with these frantic cravings, tired of them and therefore myself, and contemptuous though tolerant of all my vast powers of self-pity and self-expressive misery.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

MISFORTUNE, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.

It was ridiculous the power she had over him. The difference between misery and happiness was the right word from her.

have often said that life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Oh, come now, money shamefully made from trade fills the same holes in the treasury as the kind nobly wrung from the misery of the peasantry.

The difference between misery and happiness was the right word from her.

life is the misery we endure between disappointments

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments." - Sand dan Glokta