About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
Josh Billings

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
Fiona Shaw

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Aldous Huxley

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
Samuel Richardson

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.
Blaise Pascal

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
Nigella Lawson

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.
Martha Gellhorn

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Samuel Daniel

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
Franz Liszt

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
Samuel Johnson

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor Hugo

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Ralph Steadman

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Bertrand Russell

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
Montgomery Clift

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Boethius

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.
John Calvin

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
Erica Jong

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero