| Author |
Quotes |
| Addison Mizner | Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. |
| Alexander Pope | And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show. |
| Alexander Pope | And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show. |
| Charles Dickens | Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel. |
| Dante | There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand. |
| Erica Jong | Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. |
| Francis Picabia | Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery. |
| 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. |
| Graham Greene | People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. |
| Irish Proverb | Hope is the physician of each misery. |
| Jacopo Sannazaro | Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. |
| Jean de la Fontaine | We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? |
| John Bunyan | He that is down need fear no fall. |
| John Langhorne | The child of misery, baptized in tears! |
| Josh Billings | Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb. |
| Kazi Shams | Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr | There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples. |
| Richard Hooker | That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. |
| Thomas Gray | Grim-visaged, comfortless despair. |
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