#Misery

"Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."

"Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery."

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

"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances."

"[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever."

"Only you could be more important than what I wanted...what I needed. What I want and what I need is to be with you, and I know I'll never be strong enough to leave again."

"Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains."

"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."

"Forgive everyone. Forgive every misery and misfortune with love."

"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."

"I have been in my bed for five weeks, oppressed with weakness and other infirmities from which my age, seventy four years, permits me not to hope release. Added to this (proh dolor! [O misery!]) the sight of my right eye — that eye whose labors (dare I say it) have had such glorious results — is for ever lost. That of the left, which was and is imperfect, is rendered null by continual weeping."

"I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less."

"Misery is a scar on the soul, that if it begins in childhood, it lasts the whole lifetime. I understand that no two scars are alike, but I also ask myself; even if these scars are not alike, aren’t these things engraved on our souls signed by which we know each other?Aren’t we also alike?"

"Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it."

"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."

"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."

"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."

"A person feels the pain in judicious proportion to the sensitive nature cherished in own world; otherwise there is enough fun, happiness, enjoyment and pleasure in life."

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

"He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other."