misery vs sadness

misery

noun
  • Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. 

  • A bodily ache or pain. 

  • poverty. 

  • Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. 

sadness

noun
  • The state or emotion of being sad. 

  • An event in one's life that causes sadness. 

How often have the words misery and sadness occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )