“Too much knowing is misery.”
“You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.”
“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”
“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”
“I'm embarrassed to admit that I more or less curled up into a ball and let the misery have me." He grinned, sheepish. "It was much more pathetic than hearing voices. And, of course, you know I do that, too.”
“Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too self-absorbed to want much company. Others' experiences did help with my emotional struggle...”