Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking.

Misery is an indication that you are in conflict.

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

because we cannot see things beforehand, and only know how dreadfully miserable we are, we think it is always going to be so.

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

What causes misery is always trying to get away from the facts of life, always trying to avoid pain and seek happiness — this sense of ours that there could be lasting security and happiness available to us if we could only do the right thing.

Misery destroys judgment.

How can thinking about the misery of others help if you’re miserable yourself

To think is to be sick.

Maybe your misery is the weapon you brandish in your hatred for those who rose upward while you waited and sank. Maybe your misery is your attempt to prove the world's injustice, instead of the evidence of your own sin, your missing of the mark, your conscious refusal to strive and live. Maybe your willingness to suffer in failure is inexhaustible, given what you use that suffering to prove. Maybe it's your revenge on Being. How exactly should I befriend you when you're in such a place? How could I?

Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs

It's the thinking that gets you killed.