#misery

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

— Victor Cousin

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When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time. ↗

— John Fowles

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I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. ↗

— Anne Frank

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Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

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At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

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I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. ↗

— James Madison

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