Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

- Addison Mizner

Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.

- Bjorn Ulvaeus

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

- Brooke Shields

There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a perpetual misery there.

- Brian Cox

There is winning and there is misery.

- Bill Parcells

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

- Bill Burr

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.

- Bertrand Russell

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

- Bertrand Russell

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.

- Bertolt Brecht

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

- Arthur Adamov

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

- Aeschylus

I was on the field praising quarterback Dan Fouts during a ceremony to retire his number. Boos began shaking the stadium. It was a moment of misery like I'd never experienced before. Afterward, dejection hung over me for days.

- Alex Spanos

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

- Anthony Trollope

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

- Arthur Golden

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

- Alexander Smith

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

- Anne Frank

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

- Anne Frank

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

- Ambrose Bierce

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

- Albert Schweitzer

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

- Albert Camus