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The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel.

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.

Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.

This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel.

That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

The child of misery, baptized in tears!

But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

Misery travels free through the whole world!

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy, Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair, And at her heels a huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?

Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones; And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

No, misery makes sport to mock itself.

All of which misery I saw, part of which I was.

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.