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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

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet...

Quote by Francis McCourt about childhood, saints, poverty, miracle, mother, happiness, fire, fire brigade, nothing, things

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

I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is...

I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.

Quote by Joe Pantoliano about work, actors, good, good luck

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear...

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

Quote by John Milton about opinion, blind

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

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I...

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

Quote by Woody Allen about humor, people

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

The miserable have no other medicine.

The miserable have no other medicine.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, medicine

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and...

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about life

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about happiness, age, olderness, moment, life

People love coming on television, even if they have to...

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

Quote by Victoria Abril about television, love, people

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

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