#misery

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#misery #misery

I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own. ↗

— Katja Millay

#misery

I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#misery #misery

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#church #few #forget #free #go

As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity. ↗

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#as far as #concerned #country #dignity #far

It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler. ↗

— Christine Keeler

#christine #living #me #misery

Misery is a communicable disease. ↗

— Martha Graham

#disease #misery

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#feel #help #hoping #i #impertinence

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#gathered #honey #human #human soul #misery

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#deception #folly #hear #human #i