No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.
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John Keats
Misery will not come to the one who does not deceive his own Self. Miseries arise because one deceives one’s own Self.
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Dada Bhagwan
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
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Albert Schweitzer
I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery.
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Edgar Allan Poe
We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay...
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Charles Dickens
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