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Misery Quotes - Page 3

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2402, Manonmani Publishers

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.82, Thomas Nelson Inc

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.339

There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner.

Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.148, Penguin

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1903). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom ...”

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Steve Almond (2010). “Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us”, p.6, Random House

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas Chapman (1831). “Religio Medici”, p.114

Most comedy comes out of misery.

"Seth Rogen: My cancer comedy bromance". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2011.