#misery

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Anne Frank

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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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My life has run from misery to happiness. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

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I am talking about misery and all of its implications. ↗

— Juan Rulfo

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I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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