"source of misery" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that causes a person to experience negative emotions. For example, "The unfairness of the situation was a source of misery for him."
Depression and anxiety are a huge source of misery, and they are largely treatable.
Chronic pain is another source of misery that could be ameliorated by better policy.
He declares that "the greatest source of misery in the world... was neither disease nor race nor religion.
New Jersey Transit's communications, on the other hand, became for many commuters yet another source of misery.
Similarly, at the start of the twentieth century Progressive politicians, decrying betting as a "source of misery and vice," shut down nearly every racetrack in the nation.
Indeed, its plans for London's Tube repeat the error.Only reconnectLondon Underground has long been a source of misery to the capital's residents.
The appreciation of grandeur encompasses sensitivity to folly, confusion, selfishness and all the sources of misery.
While ingested plant poisons are the most common hazard for small children, for adults and older children the usual sources of misery are plants that create problems on physical contact, like poison ivy.
Sources of Misery Every animal that has hair, fur or feathers is capable of causing allergic reactions in people sensitive to their allergens — proteins in saliva, urine, secretions from oil glands in the skin, and dander, the tiny dead skin particles these animals constantly shed.
We can do away with poverty, hunger, ignorance, pollution, many common diseases, and other chronic sources of misery.
His body, however, was only one source of his misery.
