This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people. Walter Ulbricht
We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. Henri Barbusse
As long as I can remember, I have suffered because of the great misery I saw in the world. I never really knew the artless, youthful joy of living, and I believe that many children feel this way, even when outwardly they seem to be wholly happy and without a single care. Albert Schweitzer
The reason why I entered into a religious order is this: first, the great misery of the world, the wickedness of men, the rapes, the adulteries, the thefts, the pride, the idolatry, the vile curses, for the world has come to such a state that one can no longer find anyone who does good. Girolamo Savonarola
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time. John Fowles
Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, 'He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his head, he said, 'Lord help my poor soul.' As he had lived so he diedin great misery and tragedy. Edgar Allan Poe