Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.