He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had forgotten it, but was miserable about it, notwithstanding. And this misery was the voice of the great Love that had made him and his wife and the baby and Diamond, speaking in his heart, and telling him to be good. For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds. On Mount Sinai, it was thunder; in the cabman's heart it was misery; in the soul of St John it was perfect blessedness.
George MacDonaldTags: love heart misery voice thunder blessedness
What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?
Elif ShafakTags: love world sadness misery
Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.
Toni MorrisonTags: sadness caution misery bad-luck
They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraTags: misery fool stone insane misfortune lunatic quixote windmills
In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
John LylyTags: companionship misery comfort
The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.
Bryant McGillTags: humanity misery gain advantage
The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.
Steven PressfieldTags: art write artist misery writer miserable
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William JamesTags: misery indecision habits
The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyTags: misery frankenstein
Nobody wants to be alone in misery. Cara experienced no shame in admitting that need. Not only did she not want to suffer alone, she demanded co-suffering from all who dared love her.
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