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“I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.”

Differences Comfort Misery Pillow

Author:Agatha Christie

“The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.”

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does it appear that the happiest lot of terrestrial existence can set us above the want of this general blessing; or that life, when the gifts of nature and of fortune are accumulated upon it, would not still be wretched, were it not elevated and delighted by the expectation of some new possession, of some enjoyment yet behind, by which the wish shall at last be satisfied, and the heart filled up to its utmost extent.”

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous : to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Works of Mrs. Piozzi, His Life, Recently Published by Mr. Boswell, and Other Authentic Testimonies : Also His Will, and the Sermon He Wrote for the Late Doctor Dodd

“Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life.”

Form Views Behinds Steps Comfort Harmony Misery Bliss Strife Woe Hue

Book:The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings

Source: The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings

“It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.”

Men Want Earth Values Given Cities Conditions Fields Changed Comfort Ocean Labor Misery Raised Forests Ships Plenty Desert Covered Possessed Savages Elegance Barbarism Talismans

Author:John Ramsay McCulloch

“The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.”

Way Helping Action Earth Beautiful Faces Life Is Fall Compassion Ignorance Comfort Misery Degradation Fall Back Beautiful Earth

Book:George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

“Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)”

Soul Reason Lord Comfort Misery Kingdoms My Soul Companion Wretched Good Will Faustus Mephistopheles

Author:Christopher Marlowe

“Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an order of magnitude than any mountain I'd been on; I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain. And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium and suffering, it struck me that most of us were probably seeking above all else, something like a state of grace.”

States Facts Pain Suffering Order Pleasure Greater Grace Week Comfort Mountain Misery Endure Seeking Climbing Camps Toil Magnitude Undertakings Ratios Everest Expeditions Tedium

Author:Jon Krakauer

“People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness... Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner.”

“I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying 'we all.'" Excuse me, gentleman, but I am not justifying myself with this allishness. As far as I myself am concerned, I have merely carried to an extreme in my life what you have not dared to carry even halfway, and, what's more, you've taken your cowardice for good sense, and found comfort in thus deceiving yourselves. So that I, perhaps, come out even more "living" than you.”

Knows Found Speak Taken Feet Comfort Concerned Angry Misery Excuse Extremes Gentleman Cowardice Deceiving Stamps Halfway Good Sense Excuse Me

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.”

I Can Done Subjects Comfort Guilt Misery Faults Quitting Pens Impatient I Quit Tolerable Mansfield Park

Book:Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations

Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations

“Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.”

Literature Sadness Comfort Misery Partners Miserable Woe Misers

Book:The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux

Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux

“Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.”

Hope Poverty Conditions Comfort Misery Sickness Without Hope Captivity

Author:Samuel Johnson