Chuck Palahniuk

I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just through the things that I buy and how I live my life, and these are not things that ever deserved to die.

American Novelist

Erica Jong

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.

Anthony Hopkins

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Welsh Actor

Charlie Chaplin

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

English Actor

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

American Author

Woody Allen

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

American Director

Ian Frazier

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

American Writer

Zhang Yimou

People in misery is what most important in art.

Chinese Director

John Carter Cash

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

American Musician

Loretta Lynn

My life has run from misery to happiness.

The word 'misery' carries strong negative emotions, indicating deep distress or extreme unhappiness.

Emotional Weight

'Misery' suggests a profound level of suffering, more intense than mere discomfort or sadness.

Intensity of Suffering

Misery can refer to both physical pain and mental suffering, or a combination of both.

Not just Physical

Referring to someone as 'misery' conveys they consistently bring down others' moods.

Negative Association

When calling someone 'misery', it's informal and might be considered rude in certain contexts.

Colloquial Usage

Use this definition of 'misery' to describe a person's characteristic behavior, not a temporary mood.

Behavioral Characteristic

This usage of 'misery' personifies sadness, attributing it directly to a person's nature.

Mood Describer

Calling someone a 'misery' in this way is informal and often used in casual conversation.

Colloquial and Informal

Describing someone as 'misery' doesn't necessarily mean they're sad, but they affect others negatively.

Not Literally Sad

 Well, this is the national art of the U.K. It's our national sport. We complain about the weather, sport, about politics, about everything, but actually, complaining is viral misery. It's not spreading sunshine and lightness in the world. Excuses. We've all met this guy.

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 last week when we spoke elon um i asked you whether you were thinking of taking over you said no way said i i do not want to own twitter it is a recipe for misery everyone will blame me for everything what on earth changed no i think i think everyone will still blame

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 be honest just it just had this feeling of oh come on leopard seals just just put these poor chicks out of their misery these are the chicks that i'd been filming for weeks and i just they were gonna get eaten they could at least get taken out quickly but that's

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 to never admit that anything scares you or impresses you or excites you. Somebody once told me it's like walking through life like this. You protect yourself from all the unexpected miseries or hurt that might show up. But I try to walk through life like this.

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 we're gonna expose these women to the four pillars of misery; to be hungry, cold, tired and wet. We're gonna push them to their physical and, most importantly, their mental limits. We're gonna see what they're made of. Keep on pushing, guys. Keep on pushing.

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 Smith and he said this this is worth contemplating the great source of both the misery and disorders of human life seems to arise from overrating the difference between one permanent situation and another some of these situations may no doubt deserve to be

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 different from the skills of relieving misery and so the parallel thing holds with Technology Entertainment and design I believe that is it is possible for these three drivers of our world to increase happiness to increase positive

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 the country full of blood and miseries where women are called domestic helpers mail-order brides and little brown machines by US servicemen a sign in our country at age five I work with my mother selling foods and cigarettes a

Speaking out against...

 I mean I've rarely seen lines so flat. Clearly, what is happening is money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery, and we can measure that misery very, very clearly.

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 and some guy her dad once did business with, and they'll vow that nothing -- not abject poverty, not life-threatening illness, not complete and utter misery --