Careful Words

miserable (adj.)

  Miserable comforters are ye all.

Old Testament: Job xvi. 2.

The miserable have no other medicine,

But only hope.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

O, I have passed a miserable night,

So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,

That, as I am a Christian faithful man,

I would not spend another such a night,

Though 't were to buy a world of happy days.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.

  Have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

Book Of Common Prayer: The Litany.

To be weak is miserable,

Doing or suffering.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 157.