#misery

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

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#being #best #bring #creature #deepest

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#almost #automatically #human #increase #misery

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#broad #daylight #descend #just #misery

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

— Dante Alighieri

#greater #happiness #misery #recall #sorrow

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#humor #i #misery #often #out

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#choose #come #decision #happiness #life

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true. ↗

— David D. Burns

#bad #create #fool #misery #moods

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#compassion #final #misery #prevent #relieve

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

#armies #camped #destruction #entered #every