The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind…

There's never any ebb in human misery.

— Lynn Nottage

Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a…

— Isaac Bonewits

“Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it.”

— Anonymous

My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and the streets…

— Henry Miller

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

— Gilles Deleuze

“The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.”

— Bryant McGill

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

— Heinrich Heine

“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.”

— Tom Robbins

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

— Dallas Willard

“I wandered aimlessly through this muddy lane bespattered with blood, fragments of the past detached themselves and floated listlessly before my eyes, taunting me…

— Henry Miller

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

— Cormac McCarthy

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

— Simone Weil

As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go…

— Daniel Defoe

Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human…

— Tom Chatfield

“money came from human misery and death and despair, as always it does.”

— Taylor Caldwell