Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
If someone asked for advice on being an actor I'd say "Don't. It's a hard life." And if they walked away I'd… — Bill Oberst Jr Copy Share Image
I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Not knowing who God made us to be, trying to be who we are not, or even just desiring to be someone… — Stormie Omartian Copy Share Image
“Happiness and misery are both delusions. One has a delusion of misery in the heat and a delusion of happiness under the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Yet the women's misery is socually invisible. Despite our education and accomplishments, we are expected to keep our mouths shut and accept… — Jennifer Morse Copy Share Image
Boredom!!! Shooting!!! Shelling!!! People being killed!!! Despair!!! Hunger!!! Misery!!! Fear!!! That's my life! The life of an innocent eleven-year-old schoolgirl!! A schoolgirl… — Zlata Filipović Copy Share Image
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I… — Jonathan Aitken Copy Share Image
I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian… — Eliza Lynn Linton Copy Share Image
The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
“But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As long as you don't compliment yourself, your environments and your job, you will always be miserable. Complaints bring misery, compliments brings… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
“It's funny how you repeat behavior, even when you know it's bad for you, because it's the only thing you know. It's… — Courtney Robertson Copy Share Image
“Misery will not come to the one who does not deceive his own Self. Miseries arise because one deceives one’s own Self.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Maybe there is something specifically Scandinavian that comes out of the long, dark winters - you have to learn to laugh at… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
“It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of… — Harriet Brown Copy Share Image
“This powerful force which permeates and balances the universe is far too impersonal to care about the happiness or misery of flesh-and-blood… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
