There's enough MISERY in the world TODAY WITHOUT GOING out of the way to CREATE more.

The WHITE MAN's HAPPINESS cannot be purchased by the BLACK man's MISERY.

Societies can easily talk themselves into CONFLICT and MISERY. But they can ALSO talk, and act, their WAY out.

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the PROUD GERMAN soldier had TURNED into a defeated bundle of misery and the GREAT German army had disintegrated.

Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of MISERY. You have to be miserable with the STATUS QUO to want to CHANGE it.

You KNOW, the CAMERA is not MEANT just to SHOW MISERY.

I am deeply CONCERNED about the impact of poverty on CHILDREN because poverty can destroy their FUTURE and bind them to a LIFE of misery.

I THINK a lot of songwriters WOULD agree that it's OFTEN easier to find INSPIRATION in misery.

The greatness of being an ARTIST is the KIND of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was MISERABLE! Now how can I WRITE about it?'

I COME from a very DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY, so I was comfortable in misery. So I would create more misery for myself because I didn't KNOW anything else.

If you don't TAKE yourself SERIOUSLY, you will DIE joyfully. If you take yourself seriously, you will go through a LOT of misery.

If everybody lives in the same WAY, there's SOMETHING almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class DIFFERENCE is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

In some ways, I always thought you're BETTER off behaving like a rock STAR when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your LIFE will be made a MISERY.

I think art doesn't have to be created in a PERIOD of MISERY, but it CERTAINLY helps.