{"id":3754,"date":"2015-09-21T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T17:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2015-09-21T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T17:38:00","slug":"5-quotes-from-literature-about-misery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/5-quotes-from-literature-about-misery\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Quotes from Literature About Misery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"misery<\/a>It’s not fun to think about, but misery is part of the human condition.<\/p>\n

Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<\/i>Bartleby, the Scrivener<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Herman Melville
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The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Frankenstein<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Mary Shelley<\/a><\/p>\n

Passion takes no count of time; peril marks no hours or minutes; wrong makes its own calendar; and misery has solar systems peculiar to itself.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The True Story of Guenever<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Elizabeth Stuart Phelps<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0A Princess of Mars<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/a><\/p>\n

There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Tom Jones<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Henry Fielding<\/a><\/p>\n

More Quotes from Literature about Misery<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not fun to think about, but misery is part of the human condition. Here are five quotes from literature about misery.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[694,695,622,308,799,100,165,832,621,800],"class_list":["post-3754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","tag-a-princess-of-mars","tag-edgar-rice-burroughs","tag-elizabeth-stuart-phelps","tag-frankenstein","tag-henry-fielding","tag-herman-melville","tag-mary-shelley","tag-misery-quotes","tag-the-true-story-of-guenever","tag-tom-jones"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}