Sentence examples for constant misery from inspiring English sources

Especially in his final years, Beethoven was in constant misery, some of it ordained by fate and some of it self-imposed.

I cried, not just for him, but for all the evil we had seen: the mass graves, the rape victims, ethnic cleansing, the sewer in East Timor where a dead man, purple and swollen, floated in dark water, the relentless, constant misery.

The way the people are treated here, the constant misery we see in the streets, the violence and the government continually spitting in our faces by stealing public money – and giving priority to unnecessary international events – is more than many of us can bear.

"It's a constant barrage of misery we're presented with, that we have to fight our way through on a daily basis," says one of them.

Thomas Malthus, a British clergyman who founded the science of demography, wrote in 1798 that it was impossible for people to "feel no anxiety about providing the means of subsistence for themselves and [their] families" and that "no possible form of society could prevent the almost constant action of misery upon a great part of mankind".

We spent the two years before his death in a constant state of misery, stress and worry.

That doesn't mean that the show has to dwell in a place of near-constant negativity and misery, however.

It is this economic misery and constant fear that has left so many Iranians, including those born after the departure of the shah, so nostalgic for the past.

And indeed, for some, misery is a constant.

He was continually beaten and generally despised, his life reduced to misery, loneliness and constant fear.

"I realized that I had to keep doing it, because there's a constant barrage of imagery of misery, despair and hopelessness, and more than any of those things — helplessness, the idea that Africans need to be saved," he said.