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Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

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.

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.

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

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

Misery loves company.

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.

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

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

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

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

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.

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.