Shared Misery Quotes

New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us share in our sufferings. The ills of the soul one can hide, but those which attack the body and destroy the faculties cannot be concealed.

From the moment I told her about my dad, it was as if her whole body sighed in relief. As if someone else’s misery comforted her, made her feel as if she wasn’t alone.

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?

The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.