Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold

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.
Emily Mortimer

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
Jean Racine

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
Joseph Addison

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.
David D. Burns

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
Boyle Roche

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!
Meat Loaf

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.
Joseph Butler

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
Martha Washington

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.
Rebecca H. Davis

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.
Bertolt Brecht

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
Nagarjuna

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.
Jurgen Habermas

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
Eric Hoffer

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
Quintilian

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
Margaret Drabble

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Jefferson