785 Quotes About Misery

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one,” he said.“Life can be difficult for everyone,” she replied.“Misery makes no distinction between prince and pauper.

If Iona's heart were to burst and his misery to flow out, it would flood the whole world, it seems, but yet it is not seen. It has found a hiding-place in such an insignificant shell that one would not have found it with a candle by daylight....

When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin.

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.