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  1. Dennis Lehane _ Mystic River

    I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made the playoffs, or you saw a movie, or a billboard glowing dusky orange and advertising Aruba, or a girl who bore more than a passing resemblance to a woman you'd dated in high school- a woman you'd loved and lost- danced above you with shimmering eyes, and you said, fuck it, let's dream just one more time.
    book-quotehopepainmisery

  2. Neil Gaiman _ Stardust

    You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.
    book-quotemiserymiserable

  3. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.
    book-quotefreedommiseryobstacle

  4. Voltaire _ Candide

    Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
    book-quotelifemeaningmisery

  5. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.
    book-quotemisery

  6. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."*Fantine
    book-quotelifemiserymusical

  7. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for the health of one who is dear to you, today you fear for your own; tomorrow it will be an anxiety about money, the next day the slanders of a calumniator, the day after the misfortune of a friend; then the weather, then something broken or lost, then a pleasure for which you are reproached by your conscience or your vertebral column; another time, the course of public affairs. Not to mention heartaches. And so on. One cloud is dissipated, another gathers. Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who are lucky! As for other men, stagnant night is upon them.
    book-quotehappinessluckmisery

  8. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
    book-quotehumanitymisery

  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Brothers Karamazov

    ...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.
    book-quoteescapesuicidemother

  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Netochka Nezvanova

    You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.
    book-quotemisery

  11. George MacDonald _ At the Back of the North Wind

    He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had forgotten it, but was miserable about it, notwithstanding. And this misery was the voice of the great Love that had made him and his wife and the baby and Diamond, speaking in his heart, and telling him to be good. For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds. On Mount Sinai, it was thunder; in the cabman's heart it was misery; in the soul of St John it was perfect blessedness.
    book-quotelovevoiceheart

  12. James Baldwin _ Sonny's Blues

    All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart.
    book-quotelovemisery
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