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The child of misery, baptized in tears! (Quote by - John Langhorne)

People in misery is what most important in art. (Quote by - Zhang Yimou)

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery. (Quote by - Helen Hunt Jackson)

There is winning and there is misery. (Quote by - Bill Parcells)

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

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. (Quote by - Jon Crosby)

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery. (Quote by - Gates McFadden)

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery. (Quote by - Jonathan Mayhew)

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time. (Quote by - John Fowles)

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others. (Quote by - Beatrice Potter Webb)

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. (Quote by - Voltaire)

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform. (Quote by - Matt LeBlanc)

Misery is a communicable disease. (Quote by - Martha Graham)

This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel. (Quote by - Smyrns of Chios)

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb. (Quote by - Josh Billings)

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. (Quote by - Omar Bongo)

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

Hope is the physician of each misery. (Quote by - Irish Proverb)

Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. (Quote by - Euripides)

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