#misery

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

— Frederick Douglass

#cannot #happiness #man #misery #purchased

Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery. ↗

— P.N. Elrod

#insanity #life #love #meanness #misery

Some days when my face was broken out just a little too much for me to take, and I looked in despair at the way my fashionless clothes hung on my thin body, my heart just couldn't take another noticeless passage through my school day and I went to agonize alone in the park. ↗

— Calpernia Addams

#transgender #love

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#lewis #misery #sad #truth #sad

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#envy #equal #failure #gospel #ignorance

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#help

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#self-indulgence #wallowing #melancholy

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. ↗

— Albert Camus

#between #correct #everything #half-way #history

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. ↗

— Albert Camus

#encounter #happy #history #misery #periods

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#alienation #alive #anger #because #causes