#misery

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

— Lord Byron

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I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#entirely #happy #i #misery #seeing

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

#alienation #alive #anger #because #causes

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

#adversity #distress #examples #fair #greatest

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

— Voltaire

#misery #spirit #who

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

— Thomas Gray

#had #misery #tear

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

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Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated. ↗

— George Grosz

#bundle #changed #defeated #disintegrated #except

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#almost #automatically #human #increase #misery

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery. ↗

— Richard Hooker

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