By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration and all the fair examples of renown out of distress and misery are grown.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Unless we practice conservation those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery degradation and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

In opposition to this detachment he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams man's illness man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

As men are not able to fight against death misery ignorance they have taken it into their heads in order to be happy not to think of them at all.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.