Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon. Woody Allen
Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery. Matthew Arnold
By compassion we make others’ misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. Thomas Browne
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. William Cobbett
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. Charles Darwin
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)
As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery. John Donne
To live by one man’s will becomes the cause of all misery. Richard Hooker
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life – music and cats. Albert Schweitzer
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery. Percy Bysshe Shelley