“Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.”

“One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love—any love—reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.”

“My best friends are my memories
They're the only ones that save me from misery”

“Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.”

“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”

“Human friends, friends in hardship and in life, this is our pure love, love of mother and son.”

“Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.”

“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”

“In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.”

“Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery”