The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Having spent time in Hell, he knew that government paperwork was the closest mankind had ever come to achieving true soul-crushing misery.… — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Shaun couldn’t hold the sigh back. The disgustingly shaded contents of the pint glass were going to be his only company. His… — Sharon Stevenson Copy Share Image
If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained.… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I think I would co-direct because I love actors and I've got a very good eye. I'm not a second-guesser. I don't… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
A good writer can simulate a page torn out of somebody's diary, and give you every little voyeuristic thrill you might get… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“There always are and always will be some strange personalities in our country, whatever the conditions, who though peaceful and not at… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today,… — William of Malmesbury Copy Share Image
There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We make very little progress when we strive to conquer baser instincts in a good mood. However, vast strides are possible when… — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Copy Share Image
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I hadn't intended to end up there. I meant to be a serious actor with a beard who wore a lot of… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
“If only they would not look at one so-What great misery can be in two such small spots, no bigger than a… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep? — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A trajectory of misery – at this point – seems intentional. We have all the information we need to see clearly. We… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
“No matter how much difficulty one faces in satsang (the company of enlightened one) it is good but any amount of happiness… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man,… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly… — Homer Copy Share Image
The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it’s a formula… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
If you can't control it or change it there's no point in stressing yourself over it. Just focus on something that you… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
The best anti-depressant pill for me would be one the size of a house so you could drop it on me and… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
