Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here… — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Of course the crank religions wouldn't like it, in view of the fact that their raison d'etre was based on misery, indefinitely… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Who is the Lord become pleased with? It is with the one who takes on everyone’s miseries and gives happiness to others.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What is marriage now, or what has it ever been? - just a painful suffering, a long suffering, with false smiling faces.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
“I looked at the woman crying over the doll and felt something else. I was sick of people acting against their own… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
“God,” she cried, “what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
“It is the beginning of the year of our Lord 1963. I see a young Negro boy. He is sitting on a… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
“But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years. — Joy Browne Copy Share Image
The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to… — Derek Lin Copy Share Image
I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering,… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which… — Robert Byron Copy Share Image
Have you ever had a problem you had to keep to yourself and your tryin but it hurts like hell? It's a… — Tynisha Keli Copy Share Image
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The first time it happened, I laid there marveling at the beauty of it, wondering why God would forbid such bliss when… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
No matter how hard you try to make a person who's miserable all the time happy it'll never work, until they get… — Larry J Cowell Copy Share Image
“Our misery. This suppression of our rational mind is the source of inspiration. Suffering takes us out of our rational self-control and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
I want everybody to be happy because, if you're happy, you are more open to other people. Don't let misery bring you… — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
“You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the… — Paul Sears Copy Share Image
Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
