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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Quote by Russell Baker about companies

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about thinking

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy, sun, indifference, history

How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good Earth is our Mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?

Quote by Paul Bigelow Sears about earth, destruction, suffering, mother, day, good, good luck

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on...

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances

Quote by Martha Washington about happiness, circumstances

There is no greater sorrow, Than to be mindful of the...

There is no greater sorrow, Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.

Quote by Dante Alighieri about philosophy, sadness, happiness, time

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and...

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Quote by Woody Allen about life, solitude, suffering

That he delights in the misery of others no man will...

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Quote by Joseph Addison about man

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I...

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

Quote by Aeschylus about attitude, silence

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the...

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about happiness, man

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about help, eyes, love, man

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter...

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Quote by Albert Camus about poverty, history, happiness

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Quote by Jane Austen about guilt

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the...

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about sadness, friendship, joy, happiness

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince...

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Quote by Federico Fellini

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing, man

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about happiness, art, magic, nothing, things, man

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in...

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair about religion, history, idea, human imperfections

Who could not have liked The Shining, it's like one of...

Who could not have liked The Shining, it's like one of the greatest films of all time, another great one is Misery.

Quote by Timothy Olyphant about time

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal...

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

Quote by Thomas Otway about moment

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