#misery

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Lord Byron

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

— Frederick Douglass

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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

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Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated. ↗

— George Grosz

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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Misery is a match that never goes out. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice. ↗

— Victor Cousin

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