The phrase "amount of misery" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the quantity or degree of suffering or unhappiness experienced by someone or something.
Example: "The amount of misery caused by the natural disaster was overwhelming for the affected communities."
Alternatives: "level of suffering" or "degree of anguish".
"This has created a huge amount of misery," he said.
(Uncle Arms wants to bolster his own pageant, whose winners are predicated on the amount of misery they have sustained).
Europe's gross domestic product might have fallen as much as ours, but the Europeans weren't suffering anything like the same amount of misery.
Or, as Mr. Dickstein suggested, maybe there wasn't a need for a monumental amount of misery but for just enough to fit the funny pages.
It is just possible that the Iranian regime has some red lines of its own when it comes to the amount of misery it risks its people enduring before looking for a diplomatic way out.
This time, the country never suffered 25percentt unemployment or nearly the same amount of misery — thank goodness — but it has endured years of weak growth following the crisis.
It's hard to tell whether Paul's joyless existence rubs off on Jenny or hers on him or if they bring equal amounts of misery to the equation.
For instance: when you are too ambitious, you become greedy and sacrifice personal relations; when you are too creative, you can't do the obvious, pragmatic thing and overcomplicate it; when you are too intelligent, you forget that people are not always driven by reason; when you are too resilient you put up with unnecessary amounts of misery (it is mostly avoidable).
I've found it's very satisfying to take all that desire for revenge, all that desire to get back at someone, all that desire to inflict equal amounts of misery on a person who has done me wrong, and redirect all of it into an inner conviction, and vow to never do to someone else the thing that has been done to me.
