How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery! – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 20. Victor Frankenstein.
I feel that our friends amongst the dead really mind us and look out for us. Often there might be a big boulder of misery over your path about to fall on you, but your friends amongst the dead hold it back until you have passed by. – John O’Donohue Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom.
No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. – George Orwell Animal Farm. Chapter 1. Old Major, on the tyranny of man towards animals.
The cup of Ireland’s misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full. – Boyle Roche
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. – Anthony Trollope
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. – Margaret Drabble
