785 Quotes About Misery

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

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.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

Misery develops in the insidious seams created by imprecision and faulty human thinking. The cure for unhappiness is finding joy by embracing human nature.

There is no need returning anger to those who made your past horrible, do not think of making them feel bitter, maybe a help from you can just make them ashame and miserable, and can probably change their attitude.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Wake up from death, return to life.

Music helps us to escape any misery.

For it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the very pain of the misery, and yet to be unable to help.