I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me who came from nowhere.

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence even if only for an instant.

In opposition to this detachment he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams man's illness man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

The miser starving his brother's body starves also his own soul and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice poor and naked and miserable.

As men are not able to fight against death misery ignorance they have taken it into their heads in order to be happy not to think of them at all.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion misery and death.

For the last few years it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd you can't be happy.

One morning about four o'clock I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business the rest doesn't matter happiness or unhappiness.

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast ' the only one I could get tickets for and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.'

This is the artist then life's hungry man the glutton of eternity beauty's miser glory's slave.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

There is nothing Sir too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul gathered on wings of misery and travail.

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive ' for me is very simple. It's just about alienation really that causes anger.

When I was little I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt drudgery and a life of misery.

The law was made for one thing alone for the exploitation of those who don't understand it or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.