“Boredom!!! Shooting!!! Shelling!!! People being killed!!! Despair!!! Hunger!!! Misery!!! Fear!!! That's my life! The life of an innocent eleven-year-old schoolgirl!! A schoolgirl without a school, without the fun and excitement of school. A child without games, without friends, without the sun, without birds, without nature, without fruit, without chocolate or sweets, with just a little powdered milk. In short, a child without a childhood.” PeopleYearsChildrenLittlesWarSchoolGamesFunSunChildhoodSweetDespairBirdMiseryFruitHungerInnocentShootingExcitementBoredomChocolateMilkElevenOld SchoolWithout Friends Book:Le journal de Zlata Source: Le journal de Zlata
“Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your brash and insolent beauty, your heavy comedic face and knowledge of sweet delights, but from a distance I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.” HeartWholeWantedFacesLeftKnownBreakSweetDistanceMiseryDelightHeavyPlotHeart BreakComedicInsolentBrash Author:Maya Angelou
“Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.” PoetryNightBornSweetBabyMiseryDelightEndlessEvery NightDead Man Author:William Blake
“Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last.” StoriesLastsDiesBornSweetTragedyMiseryTricksCraftsCooksGreekShort StoryEpicCoincidenceDestinedMundaneBridesQuirkyGrotesqueQuietnessGreek Tragedy Book:Special Topics in Calamity Physics Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.” BodyWantedEarthStarsBloodSweetSickMiseryRealmsPoisonHeavenlyDespisedGloomy Book:The Portable Nietzsche Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.” PainMotherLeftVoiceGriefSweetMiseryConviction Author:Toni Morrison