They are crucial because, after four years of misery and confusion, people just want to go where things are stable and their children can attend school.
There are women who spend their whole lives dying of misery because they can't have a child.
"If they vote for him they'll have five years of misery because in five years, we'll demolish him".
And if NATO now carries out its latest threat to bomb Serb positions in Kosovo (and probably elsewhere), its action will come several months too late for 300,000 displaced ethnic Albanians, many of whom face a winter of misery because their villages have been destroyed.That time has been wasted is not, of course, a reason for NATO to hold back now.
He'd braved the casting, smiled for a picture, accepted his crutching lessons, agreed with every promise that he'd feel better soon — and finally just imploded in a pile of misery because he very definitively did not feel better, not at all.
The elderly and disabled face years of misery because the government has failed in its overhaul of social care, council leaders and campaigners say.
"Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time".
And so we give up on believing that our own happiness matters and we resign ourselves to a lifetime of misery because we don't want to hurt anyone and we don't want anyone to think badly of us.
Our guys in the military go through the same longings for smashbox while their families are 10,000 miles away, but there's the added layer of misery because their lives are in danger.
And my mother would still tell me, after this, that she wanted her son back, that I needed to return to God and maleness alike, that I was not her daughter despite such situational slip-ups, that I was setting myself up for a life of misery because, to her, queerness was the same as incomprehensibility, as failure, as stepping on a burning star with arms outstretched.
