Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
-Joseph Joubert
The misery of being always under a mask.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
The misery of man
proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil,
but form small vexations continually repeated.
-Samuel Johnson
If there is nothing to cause me misery,
I am tormented by the thought
that there must be something hidden from me.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Do you not see that all your misery
comes from the strange belief that you are powerless?
-A Course in Miracles
To be weak is the true misery.
-Thomas Carlyle
The chief cause of our misery
is less the violence of our passions
than the feebleness of our virtues.
-Joseph Roux
If misery loves company,
misery has company enough.
-Henry David Thoreau
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he
Who finds himself loses his misery.
-Matthew Arnold
