It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar. — Silius Italicus Copy Share Image
The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera. — Stefan Kanfer Copy Share Image
"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief. — Nicos Anastasiades Copy Share Image
Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption. — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
“A soul for a piece of bread. Misery makes the offer; society accepts.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and… — John Milton Copy Share Image
And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I suppose I should have died right then from pure misery and self-pity, but if those things were fatal, no one would… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
The brain is the man; its health is essential for normal living; its disorders are surely the most profound of human miseries;… — H. Chandler Elliott Copy Share Image
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Candidates have been telling you that if elected they would 'pull you from this bog hole of financial misery.' Now is a… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I am not alone Not beaten down just yet I am not afraid Of the voices in my head Down the darkest… — Tdg Copy Share Image
I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin,… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“If you try to convert someone, it will never be to effect his salvation but to make him suffer like yourself, to… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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