“Only misery is for free.”

“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

“the only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats…”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

“Heaven is filled with only unimaginable pleasures and promises the absence of miseries.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Suffering and Pain are two of many excruciating roadblocks in your internal Maze.
The only way out of the Maze of Misery is to Forgive.
It won't be easy at all…
but the path you chose at the time…led you to here.
Forgiving is the Key to set you Free!”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“What misery to be afraid of death.
What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

“The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

“Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches, and getting involved in it only leads to misery and dissatisfaction.”

Charles Stross Saturn's Children