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.
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.
For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed, sagging in the middle, red hair sticking out of the mattress, the spring gone and the fleas leaping all over the place.
Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where my parents used to live. 'Brink of Life' was the first one I ever saw. Three pregnant women in a maternity ward and their misery - I love that. That is what I want to show at my funeral.
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.
He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.
I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
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.
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.
When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
