#misery

Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow. ↗

— Karl Amadeus Hartmann

#sorrow #stream #unending

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#depend #disagreeable #him #his #man

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#aristocracy #bloated #cheap #china #despair

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#misery #picturesque #pitiable #poverty #rural

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

#depends #dispositions #greater #happiness #misery

I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that. ↗

— Fay Wray

#based #became #believed #doubt #go

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#himself #his #know #loses #misery

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#compassion #debt #distressed #mind #misery

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#buy #does #form #happiness #misery

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#eternal #let us #misery #moment #together