785 Quotes About Misery

Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused misery.

I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium for all this misery.

Why do we value most precisely those things we haven't got?

What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

He who poured water on the ground seizes the mighty in misery.

Only an artist can understand the despair of being abandoned by his muse, his lifelong inspiration. Only someone who had loved can know the immeasurable agony of losing the object of one's passion. Only a devout believer who has touched the Divine can know the soul-emptying misery of his Goddess being taken from him.

There's nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from the photos [that I took in Afghanistan].

You are too kind, and I am unused to it. For your own sake, do not stroke my misery. It knows not how to respond, but with a vicious bite.