#misery

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

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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#doing #happiness #men #misery #nothing

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#humor #i #misery #often #out

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice. ↗

— Victor Cousin

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

— Margaret Drabble

#compensates #misery #pleasure #rare #seen

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#comfortable #doctrine #happiness #misery #moral

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#human #human life #life #make #make up

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#checked #misery #population #power #producing

I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one... ↗

— Cathryn Kemp

#addiction #addicts #brave #courage #difficult-life

Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again. ↗

— Greg Behrendt

#love #misery #dating