Sentence examples for greatest misery from inspiring English sources

Eileen's greatest misery goes unmentioned.

Finally, now, I understand what John Donne meant: "As sickness is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sickness is solitude".

He was sustained "in times of the greatest misery or danger" by his dream of finding "the woman for whom he had been made".

The Duke of Wellington never uttered the epigram attributed to him: "Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained".

"God, it was the most ordinary things that caused the greatest misery," Liz tells herself at some point on this journey.

Asked in a survey what his greatest misery was, he answered, probably in an antic tone, "the horror of an exhibition".

Although chaos sounds scary, technology offers the prospect, at least the hope, of an epoch that bears proof of the libertarian idea that small is beautiful, that diversity and dispersion is a good thing, and that it is the control freaks of the world, whether in the form of an autocratic parent or a hegemonic global power, that accounts for the greatest miseries on earth.

"I have seen great misery and devastation," she said.

The failure of the Gu rains, which fall between April and June, promises greater misery.

It has brought great misery to the victims and their family.

LG: And the price of great love is great misery when one of you dies.