Misery Quotes - Page 8
Deepak Chopra (2009). “Power, Freedom, and Grace: Living from the Source of Lasting Happiness”, p.12, Amber-Allen Publishing
Barbara Johnson (1995). “Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy!”, W Publishing Group
And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
Annie Proulx (2008). “The Shipping News: A Novel”, p.337, Simon and Schuster
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Thomas Otway, Thomas Southerne, Mr. Joseph Trapp “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. V.”
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Divinity" (1841)
There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.
Storm Jameson (1932). “That was yesterday”
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.162
In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 31 (1780)
Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The practical works of Richard Baxter: with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by William Orme”, p.169
"De Institutione Oratoria", IX, 6, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 637-38, 1922.