Definition of Misery

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Definition of Misery
	Misery Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice. Related Definitions: Avarice, Body, Calamity, Cause, Covetousness, Distress, Extreme, Great, Mind, Misery, Misfortune, Of, Or, Pain, Woe, Wretchedness

Misery Quotations

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

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

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Henry David Thoreau

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
Anne Frank

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine

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

Misery Translations

misery in Danish is elendighed
misery in Finnish is kurjuus
misery in German is Elend
misery in Italian is penuria, miserabile
misery in Spanish is miseria, cuitado, estrechez

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