#misery

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

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In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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

— Quintilian

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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

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

— Boyle Roche

#centuries #cup #full #half #half full

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#august #hollow #last #messenger #misery

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#going #high #home #index #misery

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to. ↗

— Arthur Adamov

#get #know #long #misery #out

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

— Anne Frank

#i #misery #remains #still #think

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

— Montgomery Clift

#artist #creative #creative energy #energy #failure