Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
Dennis Prager

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
William Cobbett

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
Thomas Gray

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
Voltaire

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
Heinrich Heine

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
Euripides

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
Federico Fellini

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord Byron

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.
Martha Washington

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.
Juan Rulfo

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
Matt LeBlanc

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.
Jon Crosby

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.
Ezra Cornell

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Albert Schweitzer

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
James Madison

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.
Edvard Munch

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Anne Frank

I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.
Fay Wray