“If you regard this life as all that there is for a man to live, then the world is a pit of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only way not to be miserable is to choose not to be, accept who you are and just live the best… — Blaze Olermiday Copy Share Image
Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I heard a knock upon my door the other day I opened it to find death staring in my face The feel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I lived long enough in a society where freedom of speech was nonexistent, and I know what kind of misery that creates… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
A miserable person says, 'Let's be positive today!' It's reassuring themselves that things won't get worse. A truly positive person is not… — Andrew Cervantes Copy Share Image
Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place… — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“misery, though seemingly ridiculous, indicates life itself has the potential of meaning, and therefore pain itself must also have meaning.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The problem is not them its me that degrades falling down to accept it to be a purpose to keep alive and… — Rod Banuelos Copy Share Image
The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of… — Helen M. Luke Copy Share Image
If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with… — Lynn Freed Copy Share Image
“The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come… — Homer Copy Share Image
Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come. — Dalai Lama 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
At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There are men who work hard, digging for gold: he worked hard, digging for pity. The misery of the world was his… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When the coercive power of government is used to equalize incomes, it guarantees less prosperity across the board and spreads the misery,… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
