George Eliot Misery Quotations

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.