Misery

Famous quotes containing the word misery:

“Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until—in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known—we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt.”
—Judith Viorst (20th century)

“Is wretchedness deprived that benefit
To end itself by death? ‘Twas yet some comfort
When misery could beguile the tyrant’s rage
And frustrate his proud will.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“And mighty poets in their misery dead.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)