Quotes with misery

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  • Lord George Byron I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Martha Washington I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
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  • Martha Washington I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
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  • Anne Frank I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Albert Schweitzer 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
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Anne Frank I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Edith Wharton I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Martha Washington I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
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  • Caleb Carr I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
    Caleb Carr
    American military historian and author (1955 - )
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  • Aeschylus I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Charles Darwin If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Michael Harrington If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.
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  • Graham Greene In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers, when it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Anne Frank In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Cobbett It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Luigi Pirandello 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!
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Eliot It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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