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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Hope is the physician of each misery.

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.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

He that is down need fear no fall.

Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.