"Don't put yourself through the misery.
Many of them had already been through the misery of Passchendaele and Cambrai in 1917.
But could he have found a path through the misery, fear and boredom that ensnare a person during an emergency hospital visit?
He suffered through the misery that hits new company members who have been acclaimed in school but now have few challenges in the corps.
I really have the impression that I was playing him, that he was the woman, that he was going through that misery, the physical condition, the panic attacks".
For those used to wading through the misery, fear, terror and hatreds of Basque politics, it is a refreshing, if sadly unrealistic, idea.
I won't pretend to understand what it looks like to a Chinese audience that lived through the misery and waste of the worst years.
It's a corrective to complacency, a reminder of a period when rage itself was a necessary tonic, a caustic application that could burn through the misery of shame and isolation.
"They cut their grass, they pay their taxes and if I can go through the misery of marriage and divorce, I don't know why they shouldn't also".
A Blitz spirit hangs over British film, an attitude that says: "Well, we lived through that misery – war, strikes, sexism, banned pop songs, whatever – and came out smiling, so we'll do it again".
