misery
We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed — Napoleon
What a dreary world we live in, gentlemen. — Nikolai Gogol
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, a — Oscar Wilde
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest know — Oscar Wilde
The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is — Oscar Wilde
Bad times have a scientific value. [...] We learn geology the morning after the — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source i — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tel est le malheur de notre siècle, les plus étranges égarements même ne guériss — Stendhal
À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'a — Victor Hugo
Telle est donc la condition humaine que souhaiter la grandeur de son pays, c'est — Voltaire
A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to rot on the ground by hims — Émile Zola
If the world is to die of misery, at any rate let it die cheerfully, and in symp — Émile Zola