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We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Charlie Chaplin

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Misery

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

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.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

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

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Ambrose Bierce

Misery

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

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

Russell Baker

Company

Misery