If a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of it. Samuel Johnson
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. Boethius
Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord?
Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom.
Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?
Mephistopheles: It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery. Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus
You are shaking hands with the most miserable man on Earth. Lloyd George to Lord Hankey