misery

is so much a part of life that in order to bear it, our psychic apparatus has developed certain palliative measures such as powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery... substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it... and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.

Life, as we find it, is too hard for us... it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures. . . There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery... substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it... and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it. Freud

 don't never call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake. Otherwise it just walks on in your door.

Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.

is that moment when the sight alone of the whole form of the human body in the mirror gives the subject an imaginary mastery over his body.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. Francis Bacon

is too great for men for them to do without faith.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. Heinrich Heine

is sometimes worse for having once been happy.

It is misery enough to have once been happy.

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crash of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment and undermine security.

Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crash of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment and undermine security.

is so little appertaining to our nature,, and happiness so much so, that we in the same degree of illusion only lament over that which has pained us, but leave unnoticed that which has rejoiced us.

Misery is so little appertaining to our nature,, and happiness so much so, that we in the same degree of illusion only lament over that which has pained us, but leave unnoticed that which has rejoiced us.

misery, n.All

misery